Trail Riding

Last week when we went riding we came across some trees that were down over the trail. We go pretty fast and it's not good to come up on one of these without warning, so today we went back and cut them out of the trail. Here are some more pictures of the country we ride in.

Jim 8-)



















The town of Granite, Oregon. Population 16.

Buddy Them Are Some Cool Pictures I Like Seeing Pictures Like That From Around The Country God Sure Has Made Some Beautiful Land Thats For Sure. Now I Sure Do Wish I Felt As Young As You 2 Do When I Was Younger In My Teens Early 20's I Done The Same Stuff, But We Use To Go To Gravel Pits We Didn't Have Mountains Or Big Hills Like That All In All It Was All Fun. Glad To See That Your Knee Is Doing Good For You, You Get A Bum Knee It Seems To Be Bum The Rest Of Your Life Thanks For Sharing Your Outing Jim Looks Like It Was A Fun Day For Ya.

Thats some big pretty trees.

Now that's some perty country right there, I live on the flat plains.

You know it's really interesting. That little town of Granite has a little store and restaurant. I should have taken a picture of that too. Anyhow there is a lady that works in that store and she was telling us yesterday while we were in there that she and her husband moved there last year from Kansas. How they ended up in Granite I don't know. I'll have to ask her that next time wer'e over there. Anyway, her husband took her for a ride in the mountains around there right after they had moved there and when they got up on the ridges to where you could see down into the big canyons, she got panicked and he had to get her out of there. She said she told him that it was scary being able to look DOWN on the trees. I guess it really freaked her out big time. Then when winter came she got so bad they had to take her out to the hospital here in Baker and then on to Boise. She said that they had a lot of snow in Kansas, and sometimes it would drift up to where you had to go out of the back windows in the house because the front door wouldn't open. But she said it was nothing like living in the mountains with snow going up thousands of feet (she meant snow on the mountainsides) all around you. She's not too sure about this coming winter and she says that if it gets to her this coming winter like it did last winter, they are out of there.

Poor gal I sure hope she does OK and gets used to it. She is really a nice lady.

Jim

Nice pics looks like canada...
population of 16 LOL

Jim, Granite looks just like my sorta town buddy.

When I started Elk hunting over there in that country back in about 1975, they actually had their own sheriff. His name was Bud Morrow I believe. He looked just like a sheriff out of a western movie. Big black Stetson hat, cowboy boots and a Colt western .45 in a holster on his hip. It was pretty neat. And he was an actual law enforcement officer not just somebody dressing the part.

One year a bunch of us went to town for some supplies or something and went into the bar to have a beer and Bud was in there chewing the fat with some of the local residents. My wife, who was just my girlfriend at the time, asked him to play a game of pool with her. I told her not too, but she insisted and I remember telling her, "Go ahead and make and ass out of yourself then." He didn't hesitate for a moment and racked up the balls. My friends Wayne and his wife, Tim and Jerry watched them play a game and it was a lot of fun.

A few years later, Bud was such an unusual guy and had such an unusual job for that day and age, he made the newspapers down in Portland and Vancouver, Washington. It seems that he went to some kind of family dispute or domestic violence call somewhere in his jurisdiction, and a woman shot him dead when he walked up onto their front porch. They still have a picture of him up on the wall in the little store in Grainite, and next time I'm in there I'll take a picture of that picture.

Going into Granite back in the early 70's was stepping back in time and walking into Tombstone, Dodge City or one of those places. Well, sort of. It was neat anyhow.

Jim

Nice pics Jim