Driving Through the Lava Fields of Newberry Crater

It’s pretty amazing where they bulldozed roads in around Newberry Crater.  Even across these lava fields.

Keep on trucking across the fields of lava!

Some of the roads we tried going down were closed due to fallen trees.  Much of this area doesn’t see traffic very often.

As it started getting later in the day, we found a nice little campsite off of a side road that was off of another side road in the middle of the lava fields.

Heather with the truck right before we started to setup our camp for the night.

Mount Hebo Ramblings

We headed on up to the top of Mount Hebo to visit the former site of one of the radar stations for the old early warning system to detect Soviet bombers heading for the mainland of America.

The view from the top is great.  It’s hard to imagine what it must have been like to have a major radar installation up here 40 years ago.

On the road back to the Willamette Valley.

These stands of second or third growth trees are a little creepy with how uniform they are.

There are lots of little cool trails out here.

Big ferns here.

The ridge that runs east from Mount Hebo is really pretty.


We sure do love our little truck!  It takes us on lots of adventures.

Navigation Challenge in the Nestucca River Area

We headed out to the Nestucca River area to do a navigation challenge with some folks from PDX Overlanders.

There are some fun trails in this part of the forest.

Nice and muddy.

Out on a logging landing.

Another beautiful area to go through.

The gang I went with trying to figure out where to go next.

Our Albino Rhino enjoys the Nestucca River area!