* Heart - Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin - Kennedy Center Honors HD

* Fandango Pass Complete

dangerousroads.org -Fandango-Pass

We had to drive Fandango Pass on our way home from Oregon. It's on dangerousroads.org as one of California's dangerous roads (it's not dangerous...Haha!). It's also the first part of the Modoc Backcountry Discovery Trail (MBDT) that starts at the California border at the North end of Surprise Valley.

We started from the Surprise Valley side just south of the little town of Fort Bidwell. 15 miles up and over to Highway 395 south of the Oregon border. Uneventful, but now when we do the MBDT we can start on Hwy 395.

* Hart Mountain Hike

DeGarmo Canyon, Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge, Oregon

About 4.5 miles round trip.

The trail gets hard to follow about two miles in. We scrambled around trying to find it so we could get to the plateau and see East into the refuge, but we didn't want to be up in there past 11:00am to avoid the heat. If we ever go back I will plot a route on GPS and have a better map.

Great short hike with canyon scrambling in the beautiful Hart Mountain. One nice waterfall, no Big Horn Sheep sighted, no rattlesnake encounters.

* Kayaking Oregon's High Desert Wetlands

July 5-7. Camped along the shore for two days and two nights on our way back from Steens mountain. The water level was lower this year, so most of the ponds, and sloughs connecting the ponds, were unaccessible or dry. We still got in a great paddle one day.