Camping In The Rabbit Hills
Eastern Oregon camping in the rabbit hills recorded live on the road.
Billy Newman Robert Biscarret
Guest: Marina Hansen
Get Out There | 07 Camping In The Rabbit Hills
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Hello, and thank you for listening to this episode of The get out there podcast via is Billy new and I’m here today with Robert Vickery. How you doing, Robert? How you doing? I’m doing well. We’re in a truck right now we’re also here with Marina Hanson. Hey, how are you? I’m good. Thanks for having me on your show, guys. We’re doing a truck podcast as we were driving up a mountain road in Eastern Oregon near plush. And the rabbit hills, right, correct. Yeah. So today’s Saturday, we’ve been here. Robert, you got here. I got here Thursday on Thursday afternoon early. Sorry about that.
Yeah, it was it was a nice drive. And I got here the weather was nice. I kind of drove around for a bit. Kind of looking for somewhere to camp. Ended up heading up this, this kind of grassy knoll area and found a pretty remote spot. Anyway, set up camp. Nice day. went out for an evening rabbit hunt. No luck. And the weather’s pretty nice, though, right? Yeah, the weather is really pretty nice. I mean, that’s like, I couldn’t ask for a better day for this time of year. Yeah, for this time of year. Same thing that it’s really pretty nice. But so I go out for that rabbit hunt. And I come back. And as I’m coming back, it’s getting like pretty windy, though. And whatever. It’s dark. I decided I’m gonna go to bed because it’s pretty cold out and the wind just took off and just beat the tent up. Yeah, there’s all night long, man.
I mean, what you know and you guys go we when we showed up when you when you found us and brought us up to the campsite, man. Yeah, your tent was folded over sideways. Like the only thing that was keeping the car set up inside already. Yes. a sturdy piece. No, that’s why I just started packing gear in there so it wouldn’t float float away. Yeah, exactly. I’d be worried about that, too. I think we talked about it and before like Marina and I like we had that 10 break from the wind back and I was asked,
you mentioned that episode for like a broken arm. Yeah, I was just snapped at the angle of it. Not actually poking through the fly. The Fly.
It was a wrestler But yeah, I was thinking like something like that. I remember when I was a kid and I had a tent set up in the backyard even with whatever, a couple steaks, probably not a ton. And it was just one of those July windstorms give you like little summer thunderstorms. Yes. My tent like took off, blew over and got caught in the blackberry bushes. Let’s just do that. Yeah. Is that normally? Oh, yeah, we did not come to that yesterday. I remember coming out and that’s where we started jackrabbit. Yeah. That’s cool. Yeah.
I like like Billy was saying we’re out here. just west of heart mountain. North of plush and a place called the rabbit hills. We’re just kind of driving around exploring right now just had a camp. did a pretty nice hike yesterday. We just passed one of the bridges. We have got to Yeah, okay, so wait, what’s the Tell me about that first rabbit first, I went out went out too early. I went out at like 615 not dark enough yet. You know, they they don’t really come out until the later evening just because of predators and stuff. So yeah, they’re not not very visible during the day. Anyway, I went out there. Did a hunt I saw probably 10 or 11 jackrabbits, I couldn’t get a shot at any of them because they’re already that way. And you know, they’re, they’re about as tall as the sagebrush. So you see your ears. It’s just kind of like flashing.
Yeah, it’s pretty small. In the past, I really only like walked up on it. Yeah, I was like hiking around in the sagebrush out here. And you come around a corner. Correct the way we were talking about the grass too, when you come around a corner jackrabbit, just like, yeah, just Cz books. takes off. Yeah. And
yeah, so I went on that hot saw a ton of jagaran. I couldn’t get a shot at any of them. I got back a little after dark. I got in around eight o’clock, I guess. Okay. Just about that last little bit of daylight that you could possibly see where you were. Okay. And then. Yes, not the night. It was a good night. I mean, other than, yeah, when did the weather shift? Like, like went crazy? Yeah. between six and seven, it really started picking up. But it didn’t get real bad until I was just getting back. And at that point, it was just like, it was more than I wanted to be out. And that’s why I went to bed at eight o’clock. I didn’t even start a fire or anything. I just passed out.
Yeah. So like for us, like well, I remember talking to you about the forecast earlier in the week and we’re planning out stuff for this trip. Yeah. And it was saying that today. I think like last night like Friday night, it was supposed Like be raining and then snow in that like cold night that we had we got lucky. I guess it’s the snow level didn’t drop it with the storm it did a little faster. And so we got the rain was the wave of the rain during the daytime. Maybe earlier like you got it. Yeah. You guys yeah. And we added like when we came over with Lana pass that was snowy. And then like it was pretty good. But we saw the snow line for a lot of the areas we came out to like 31 passport rock, and then like Silver Lake and summer lake and then a bit rim. And then once we got out here, it was pretty nice. Well, he was still super windy when he showed up to me you but it started getting like nicer and nicer. That’s when they kind of threw that latter half of the day. So I was happy that we got a bit of that. I yeah, I
mean, this turnaround. I I’m really happy with this. Oh yeah, I’d be okay. If the weather stand just like me. Well, like we talked about, it’s like this is the type of risk you take in March when you decide to go on multi day camping. You know, it’s just like, what do you really expect when you go out? And well, I guess spring that might as well be winter
here. Yeah, yeah. Here this is about the same as it would be in winter. But I’m really happy to see like that, you know, it stays out later later. And yeah, nice relatively like it’s gonna be April soon, you guys. I know. It’s pretty nice coming around, man. Yesterday, we showed up to the camp. It’s a really cool site. I like to say I would say pretty remote size BLM land up here us around that. Coyote hills, rabbit hills. I guess you’re saying this is the rabbit hole. This is the rabbit hills and coyote hills. It’s kind of a little bit yeah, yeah, I’ve seen him. I know like this range kind of fills in a little bit like over on the heart mountain side. When you’re on the ridge. You can look back and look like just a little north. Really. But yeah, but yeah, you can see him really pretty well. It was crazy to remember over on Hart mountain is really the first time I learned about it, you can really kind of see it, especially that period, you start to look around like where the water level is out there. But yeah, heartlake is, I guess where was it? Crump Lake further south, down toward it down. And then I think it’s like Flagstaff lake. Lake. Yeah, kind of all run through this area. But I remember learning that was like, like, around 500 years ago. And then I guess I further back in time before that, this whole area, that whole section was just one big leg like everything from the coyote hills, the rabbit holes over here all the way up to the base of current mountain used to be
used to be one big lake. That’s what I understood to like, if you go up on Hart mountain, they have that placard.
She’s the water level used to be up here. Look at the rocks and you see the erosion lines, and you go, Oh, she’s
a trip. 100 feet. Yeah, it’s a huge lake. And now it’s just these seasonal wetlands that like even on some years, they won’t get, you know, they won’t fill up just because of low water. Oh, man.
Most of the years that I’ve been out here from like, I don’t know, like 2003 four or 567 I think I’ve only seen water in these spots maybe once or twice. Really? Well. Yeah, like significant amounts of man. A lot of the times we come out like heartlake was just like dropped way, way back. It was almost just mud, like the Flagstaff like anything up here. All of this was just Marsh, really. So it’s really weird to think like I was looking at the drainage basin from around here how a lot of the water comes off the Fremont National Forest, your heart mountain over here. And what is that? Like? I think like you see that one over there that that snowcapped. I think it’s like, Drake’s peak that drew me right, thinking of the wrong thing. But I think like, yeah, some of the creeks that run off of that hill and off of like, the Fremont national forest or Gearhart and whatever comes in over here, that draws like eastward, it fills in this water basin here, I guess, the watershed for it. So I don’t know it’s weird to think like how is just all these little creeks? There’s no significant river in this area?
No, it’s honestly it’s crazy how things even water out here in the first place. Wasn’t for small melt and just like occasional rain. I mean, this place is pretty bear with me. Oh, yeah.
I mean, not much going when we look out here. I mean, like, as far as I can see, the only lights are just the few that make up plush. Yeah, but a plush weren’t here. Like there would be I mean, this this Yeah, it’s absolutely plush this hardly anything. Yeah. Yeah.
Seriously, it’s just like that little general store and like a couple homes. And that’s it.
Yeah, like it’s hardly anything. But yeah, one of my favorite areas. That’s really cool.
So Alright, so you guys came in to camp last night? You guys met up with me? Yeah. What did we do?
Well, we took Oh, well, we tried to move camp because like the wind was coming through like crazy. Like we were still in the middle of that storm. Yeah. And we had a ton of wind blowing from the side. Southwest over there south east. man it was coming in so hard like I was probably I remember looking at the forecast is a 20 mile an hour winds I bet that it was probably it felt like more than that. I felt like man yeah that was yeah yeah they didn’t seem like toy yeah it seems to me seemed like it was gonna rip that easy if apart Marina fine yeah we yeah yeah we move the easy app we move the test put all the stuff in the back of the truck bed and then we chucked it over. I was like 100 yards or so. Yeah, we got into that little draw there. Yeah, there’s like a little a little draw. That seemed to be a pretty good windbreak from from the north and south side. And then we kind of park their cars around level a little bit of ground. Yeah. Put in a new little spot for the kitchen and stuff and yeah, it’s a great set. I really dig that little Kim. Kim berry
it’s been really nice man. I i right now we’re in an area that I was kind of scouting yesterday for potential campaign to get out of that win. Yeah. And obviously didn’t get a better appear. But no, we got a great spot. And I mean, the win is really kind of died down and it’s just made this trip a lot more enjoyable
by the wind right now is great. Like last night, yesterday evening, like what once we got like, kind of down into that draw. It was a lot better. Even when we were shooting like I went up on the hill. We pulled out the 22 team, and we did some target practice. Yeah, side of the 22 for the hunt. That was cool, man. I had a good time doing that. But I hiked up on the hill with the with the camera and as soon as that guy just like above that draw, it was just like, beat me in the side of the face with wind. But, but I tried to get a handful of pictures and we came back down. We set it in the 22 marinas data. Yeah, we’re gonna
Yeah, great. It’s pretty cool. Sniper McGee over here. Scope before or gotten set up to be seated for shooting. So So how was that? Like, what did you notice by using the scope? I liked. I liked having that accuracy. It was really cool. Because uh, you Robert had your binoculars and you were telling me kinda where were my last one hit? Yeah. And I love that part of it. That was really cool. Getting to have like that. That confirmation of where it hit and then getting to readjust from where I tried decided the last time Yeah, to get it closer. And that’s really cool. I like I like that. That kind of shooting
is cool. What do you think about the time? Yeah, like trying to steady yourself? Yeah, I like that part of you see where like the breathing plays a huge factor in it.
Yeah. Body the most still. Yeah. And exhale. It’s really tough. Sometimes it is actually. It was like, during the first two shots it was it was almost hard or distracting trying to focus. Yeah, getting my breath. Right. Just to like, practice with those a lot of fun though. I liked was it the 17 that I use? Yeah, yeah, you’re shooting? Oh, yeah. You did? Yeah. It’s not the same as the 22. It’s just like a better rifle. is something we took out last night?
Yeah. So we decided in the rifles. Yep. We set up evening. I was incredible. So the weather cleared out. got like, partly cloudy man. And out here. The view of heart mountain that no one’s ever seen it. Like from the side of the hill. It’s so cool. It’s one of the most impressive. Like masons, they’re like pop up and rise over the ground. It’s huge on top. It’s huge. It is really huge. On top, it’s read have the land out here is because it comes out from one side and then it’s shelf soft. You think about the Steen’s it does the opposite, you know. Yeah. So it’s like there’s Warner rim out here. We look out we see like the ledge come up and drop off on the east side. Then we see heart mountain come up on the west side, and then slope off to the east. Yeah. And then we see the Steen’s kind of slope up from the west. And then like drop off really steeply on the east side. It’s really trippy, like how it kind of goes like around here but these little shelves of land that like tipped up they like rows or something underneath pushing up that one side.
Yeah, it’s really interesting. topography it’s Yeah. I mean, how wide across is hard, man? I mean, it takes you like an hour and a half to dry. It’s a bit big. Yeah, that seems like a long time. Let’s do it like 55 miles an hour on a gravel road, you know?
Seems like a ton of time on a gravel road. Right is really cool. Like the view from Arizona. Can you see that whole front face Yeah. of the other mountain set of apart mountain,
especially in the sunset in the morning. So cool looking. You guys got some cool pictures last night when we
went last night was easy. Light was so cool. But yeah, so we set up Marina can we take some pictures for a while and then Robert like we set up, we got the I have the 22 you had the 17. And then we went out for another rabbit hole, which is really cool. I was my first time that good i was i never I never done any hunting stuff before I went I got my hunting license just a couple of days before the trip. And it was cool work with a 22 bit it’s cool talking with you for a few and going over what to do but at a really fun time. Like getting set up. Walking out kind of cruising through the stage. Yeah, and like you keep an eyes up but let’s see what we we got packed up. We started. You went for what two miles or three miles yesterday saw him? Yeah. Didn’t get a shot out. We started yesterday evening together, took off. What was what was that? What was our hanstone
we leave camp I give I give bill here quick little run over like rundown of what we’re gonna do, you know, safety behind this net. And so we take off over out of camp. I don’t know, what do we hike 200 yards, maybe? Maybe? Yeah, maybe maybe that’d be a generous assessment and then bam, all of a sudden, I don’t know, probably 30 or 40 yards off and you see a jackrabbit kind of cruising across the sagebrush. And I just kind of pulled up on my song. And then I pulled up where I thought it would be.
I saw you do that. And I looked over I was like, what really? robber spotted something already? I wasn’t even bored. like walking, walking around. Yeah, like, like when you’re fishing. You’re like, Oh, come on. Yeah, I’ve been. Yeah, it’s been like, like, I haven’t seen a jackrabbit forever. Like, there’s no shot today, but then like, Yeah, what, like 130 minutes into the hunt. robbers posted out by the COVID. Once you see you over there. Robert, seas move. You said if you take a shot, take a shot Blaine. Got a beautiful shot to you. I’m not I’m not trying to be full of myself. It was a really good shot. Yeah, we cruise up. We cruise up on his up on them. Like that. The puncture was like
right in the breadbasket man right behind the shoulder and like, about an inch and a half, two inches back behind the shoulder. Wow. Which all the vitals are in there. So it got him he was dead instantly. Because I usually like when you get them drive to school. But yeah, usually when you get on I mean, there’s you know, they’ll kick around for a second or two. And you can usually see where they are. But he just dropped I didn’t see him at all. Yeah, you know, so I ended up walking up over there kind of right where I thought I’d hit him. And yeah, so then we feel dressed them right there.
I’ve never not really like seen that. Done out there in the wild. Yeah. No, it was cool. Like it was. It was Yeah. Interesting to see what what you went through. And like, it’s interesting to see like, also like, I mean, at least for Robin is a smaller size, but how quick you can go through and clear out an animal. Yeah, yeah. Be Done. Yeah.
It seemed like a pretty quick cleanup of you. skinning it and then taking out the organs and stuff. Yeah, prepared me. Well, it took about 15 minutes to finish it. Yeah,
it was really quick I thought but man for like, as big as it is like, when you when you get it down. Like that’s a lean animal. And like without that, like the cap pounds. I like the ribs. There’s no meat on the ribs. Which seems like a little bit of me. And like the the arms and legs or something or like kind of around behind but that’s about it. Yeah, it was like the back around the spine and stuff like that for muscles but back strap on it. Like, a little bit bigger than a pencil. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, no, no. So okay, so we got that. I ran it back to camp, washed it. hung it up to cool. And then I met back up with you. Yeah,
that was what five minutes into? Yeah. So still. Still. I was like, Alright, let’s go. Let’s keep doing it. Yeah. So we ended up high. We hiked the good distance last night. Did you like it? We came over a couple of rises across that Creek. Yeah. And then like coming when we when we came around? It took a while to get back to that Creek, but we pass those Yeah, it’s like a little bit but yeah, we had like, yeah, we just like walked around and kept cruising. I don’t think we saw. We didn’t we didn’t see anything
else. Then we got back far after dark. Where I was pretty dry. There was a point where I was like, if this isn’t the ridge, like I mean, I know where I was, you know, I was using this this Mesa kind of out here as a as a landmark. Yeah. And I could still see it kind of highlighted in the, in the waning sunlight of
the sun, you know.
Anyway, yeah. So I was kind of using that as my reference, but then it was to the point where I was like, man, I thought this was our ridge. Oh, yeah, like and the hill is rolling. enough that you’re like, Well, I hope we just like yeah, it was a little ways down, but we just kept going. Yeah, I see we hit the road or something. I mean, yeah. There was no way we were lost. There was there’s definite possibility that we weren’t sure where we were. But there was no way we were lost. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, we ended up when we came out, like right on top of the truck. Yeah.
Yeah. It seemed like I felt like we were on track. But remember when we got there? Like, we stopped for a second. We hit the coyotes.
Oh, yeah. Because often that is that was cool, man. Like, you’re crazy, man. Yeah. Yeah. They’re smelling like, hey, these guys. Let’s go rabbits. Let’s go raid their camp. Oh, we gotta go see if those Cody’s packed off that
pile. Oh, yeah, I wanted I was thinking they’re gonna be trying to hunt that down.
Well, okay, so then. Quick little story. Last night. You guys didn’t wake up to this, but I stick through it. I slept. I slept straight through. I can’t believe it. Yeah, for 19 this morning, I’m waking up to some coyotes howling right near camp. And I’m listening to him. It was probably five or six of them. And they’re going back and forth. And I’ve got Layla, my Australian Shepherd with me and she’s in the tent. And I didn’t know. I mean, I’m hearing all this. I’m I’m kind of like, you know, I don’t hear anybody stirring. I don’t hear her like growling or barking out here. Failure Marina and the 10 over. I’m like, I know this is really loud right now. But anyway, that these coyotes that come up and then the one was barking, like I mean, it couldn’t have been 15 feet outside my head. Whoa, you know, and that’s why I couldn’t believe you guys. I wonder what else is cruise right outside? Oh, it stopped. And I’ve had that happen before on other hunting trips where they’ll come up and it’s like, I don’t know if the wind was at its back and it can sent us or something. And it just got right there. And all of a sudden was like, whoa, I’m in camp because we had that honey one year with my dad and I were laying in our on our beds there. And they came right into camp, just like howling, howling Hill and all of a sudden, they all just stop. And then they bailed. They’re just like, all of a sudden they figured it out that they’re like in somebody’s camp. That’s kind of the vibe I got last night because he was just going nuts. And then Laila kind of started to freak out. Like, this is attack dog. She’s I had to hold her wine.
Good.
Bye, but yeah, it took off but that was pretty neat.
That is cool. Yeah. Yeah, like who’s in the camp? But so I was there coyote running crews bags camp. We got dinner going. Yeah, we had the fire going. We had that rabbit. hole we prepped that rabbit. You You butchered are you?
So I cut all the usable meat out of it. We discarded the carcass I guess. But then what we did is we well, salt and pepper did and then some garlic powder. And then Honestly, I just threw it out right over the fire. Yeah. And let that cook. Made sure it was definitely well done. But honestly, we had that first bite, which I think was part of like, what would be like the tenderloin part of it. Which is like as big around as your pinky. It seems like a pretty tiny. Me. But anyway, yeah, we we sampled that because that was the first thing that was, you know, fully cooked for us to sample. And that kind of had like, it was a definite game. changer. You know, like, it almost had a fish.
I swear. Like a little bit of fish flavor. Yeah. Well, it’s a rabbit out here. I don’t know.
I mean, it’s just a little
I always hate that. You know, we spend so much time like figuring out the answers to really difficult questions and theories. And then you don’t know what a rabbit eats carrots. Yeah, I know.
Yeah, let’s go play and I don’t know why. But yeah, I was like, why don’t I like my state’s like, the high desert.
Yeah, that’s gonna be one of those questions like, kids ask you when you’re older. You sound like a dumb ass just like one of the kid inquiries and you’re like, I have no idea.
No, it was really it was cool. Getting the like the lace cooktop. Yeah, we got him The fire for a bit. I chewed on for a while you did or Yeah, I ended up a bit and I just got stopped out a bit but but it was really good. It was cool.
Honestly, I thought the legs the legs had a way better taste kind of fun thing was gone after that one. Yes. But yeah, I put a little bit of barbecue sauce on which I don’t think hurt him at all. I don’t think that that that you know I was actually pretty happy with that I
was like yeah for doing it just over the coals on the fire. I was really yeah, sounded like, rabbit. We got the ridge over for my camp and we have our well I guess it’s a couple hours ago. Oh, yeah, we made a creative. Yeah, that was really that was cool.
That was really cool. I really appreciated that process of it of I’ve never had any kind of hunting experience before. It was cool. I can follow you guys. I was like 30 feet back while Yeah, I mean, I brought my camera, stop taking pictures, taking some pictures. And it was cool. Robert is a hunting Pro. As far
as everything in three minutes,
I definitely made it look like those are those. I’d like to say that happens all the time. That was one of those precious moments.
just gone out from Camp like your Santa and just catching a little rabbit in our feed for the night and Robert processing it.
cooking it on the fire or just kind of like you could you could slow cook it or boil it or there’s probably some other ways to go about it. It’s fun. Like just eat it like Yeah, okay. primitive form. Yeah, like the American Indian that used to live out in this area too. Like Yeah, they probably did a lot of the same kinds of things.
Well, we got to try again the night and if we do well we’re gonna make a stew out of it. Oh, I’d love to do it. Yeah, get some boiling water going.
Yeah. cooked up in there and dig a little rabbit potatoes. Yeah, we got a bunch of carrots. a madman I think that’s gonna be great.
It was makes me think of that Bugs Bunny cartoon. You know, there was like picking them up and putting the carrots in there. Eating the carrots.
Yeah. Or the Porky Pig one but I was always thinking like, why would you put a live pig in the oven?
Yeah, that’s gonna create some complications. That’s gross was not the way you do that.
Yeah, previous to this. That’s like my experience with game with game. You need a big boiling. Why did you teach me while game prep? Yeah, I think it comes down to a lot about life. Oh, absolutely.
You know, and it’s funny because I couldn’t get it out of my head. It’s just like the Elmer Fudd thought going into my head Oh my god. Why you keep practice you will start paying off your learning for
now but that’s like that’s one of the sweet moments of honeymoons like the way that worked out. Because there’s so many times I mean, like perfect example the night before you guys got here. I was out for like, two hours and I got skunked. Big time. I didn’t even meant I didn’t get a shot off. I didn’t even get a good look. I saw a ton of them. I mean, I saw 10 times the rabbit we saw yesterday. Right? I was surprised but I got one.
Yeah, that was an interesting part of hunting yesterday. Was the you got that one rabbit just immediately but then there were not any other I swear there weren’t any Yeah. Did you know I didn’t see any anything. I didn’t see a thing I did I got the watch. Oh, boy.
Yeah, so we finished up the rally last night we packed away dinner we tried to suffer through the cold it cleared off did big time the wind stop to disaster was on which was really cool. That made a huge difference. Such a big difference. I mean, yeah, the night so much more comfortable to get through. But it cleared off. And it got really cold. We could see like it was cool. We started you can see a bunch of the winter constellations. Yeah, that was like over the ridge over here and then we stayed up pretty late and you saw Jupiter pull up over the top of our mountain. A few like the summer constellations that was kind of cool. And it’s so dark out here like this. You can see a lot of the deeper like fire pits. I
love that. Zero light pollution. Yeah, you know, I guess plushes out there but Oh, three flashlights by eight miles was ruined.
Yeah, great, great view out here for skywatching. So it’s cool. How much? How many more layers of stars you can see out in a really dark sky?
How many more? Yeah, we, Robert and I were talking about that cuz we were looking at the North Star. And we were looking at the Big Dipper. And we’re kind of moving around a little bit and you’re like, wow, there’s like so many more stars right there that you can normally see. Like, yeah, a number of the stars in. In the Little Dipper. They’re almost like too faint to see. And most in most situations for most people’s eyes. I think it’s like it’s like a fifth or sixth magnitude star. And we can see it no problem when you’re just like, oh, whoa, it’s like, absolutely right there. You just see this like little tiny structures so much. Such a brighter way. Ben’s really cool.
You guys got some great photos. I hope we got some good ones. Yeah, we did get some cool ones. We did some long exposure photos while we were there.
Yeah, we should get a new set of hot hands each. Those are super necessary. For easy like we saw the frost in the hood of the car.
Yeah, I didn’t want the fire and then we decided to go do those photos. And when we lived by the truck, you guys pointed out that it is cool. That’s
cool, man. Yeah, it was super icy out but that was cool. Yeah, we hiked down to the to the end of the little room where I can’t set that. Set up the tripod with the camera on it. Yeah. And yeah, took a handful of photos of like, apart mountain as part of it. And then the stars and stuff above it. That was pretty cool. I thought that was pretty fun. That was awesome. So
below is push your photo. Yeah, so I’m sure you can check out some of those photos. Marina though. If you guys don’t know her from other podcasts that she co hosts with Billy Newman, the night sky podcast. Check it out. Pretty interesting stuff. Space Marina is quite the photographer as well.
Thank you very much. Appreciate it. It’s
a little like, a little background on you. How long have you been doing photography?
I’ve been doing photography. Seriously since 2011. Probably. And I’ve always been really interested in Visual Arts. I guess I was really into drawing and painting.
Yeah, you’re just artistic by nature, like so. Yeah, photography was bound to be good.
Yeah, I loved it. I had a lot of I was really into photography. When I was a kid. I had a lot of disposable cameras.
And some nice
little point and shoot cameras. Later on that were Yeah, you know, those little single lens ones? Oh, yeah. You put batteries in. Take your filming. Like still would feel like really extreme for me. Camera. So yeah, I was really into that. And then Billy and I did that first big road trip that we went on in the fall or end of summer and into fall of 2011. And that was my first time getting to use like real professional camera equipment. With detachable lenses and a body that was like made out of metal.
Yeah, and I know. You guys pack around. It’s like it’s so heavy. Glass. Yeah. glass and metal. is a bag full of glass. Yeah. Awesome. I want a couple fragile, expensive. No, like, last night like I had my backpack. You know, which is pretty. I mean, it’s got some weight to it. But it’s like it’s pretty light in comparison to like what you’re packing around following along. You know, maybe we don’t even Honey, you just like just taking photos. Thank you. Yeah, it’s pretty cool.
Yeah, you got a bunch of cool photos. Yeah, I’m really excited about it. It was so beautiful yesterday. Yeah, colors were amazing. And the clouds were just straight to
Yeah, this is really one of the nice nicer times I’ve been out here. It’s cool having all the texture along the hillside. So yeah, one of my other favorite times a year out here and is it October in the early fall because the season starts to shift a bit. There’s the Aspen cheese. I hear that a lot where we are at right now. But there’s like a handful of groves closer to heart mounted up on Warner rim. And it’s super cool because you get in those and it’s just like bright gold and orange. Yeah, it’s super beautiful. But yeah, like that’s me here. I guess like this is the earliest I’ve ever been over here. Other than that had been like may like early May or something.
Yeah, I was gonna say I’m probably about the same time like late spring. Yeah, that’s about Tom’s I’ve made the trip out of here.
Oh, sorry. Go ahead. No,
I didn’t really. I was gonna say it’s interesting getting to be out here during different seasons where you get to experience the different weather. It only been out here or out in this area a few times that I’ve come with Billy. And it was really during very dry times a year. Yeah. And it’s interesting being out here now and having there be a bunch of clouds in the sky and rain storms and, and there’s water in the lakes. Yeah,
there’s a lot more water. There’s some green out here. I mean, that’s obviously like alfalfa. No, we’re gonna You and I were talking about that last night. We’re like, you know, if you come out in the summertime to the same place, no matter where you are, or like, you come out of the same season every year. Like, that’s all you ever know of that place. You know? Yeah. And if, like, if you really enjoy a place and want to, like experience it, I think it’s good to kind of suffer through those wet windy days and really get to understand I
think it was so worth it. Honestly, it’s like, I think even more beautiful.
Yeah, I think so. I mean, whether, yes, that it’s that take on it that nobody else gets to see. Oh, yeah, I
think some of the extreme weather you get out here is one of the best parts of it. Yeah, especially Yeah, for photos or for dynamics, or just the visual part of being here that experience of like, I mean, cuz you know, like Eastern Oregon, like it seems arid, or it seems like maybe there isn’t something here. But man it is like super interesting and has a really strong presence about it. Like just the way the way it feels being out here. A man teeming with life. Like I like Yeah, why don’t come here in the Coyote. Yeah, here are like getting a rabbit here. Here in the rabbits. Yeah, classic. But yeah, it’s this whole area is like is really full of a lot more life than you would first thing given that it’s like 200 miles until you get to another small town.
Yeah, I know. It’s It’s crazy. Like Yeah, rock as far as you can see,
when you go north there. It’s like there’s nothing like there’s nothing to to the west until the edge of a bit rim. Yeah, from here. There’s nothing to the east. Like I mean, French glide if you can count that. But you can jump over to the Steen’s there’s nothing. The alvord there’s nothing like out to McDermott. McDermott. Yeah. Who’s heard of McDermott? Yeah. And then like from your north, it’s like, all the way up to like highway 20 when you get up to wagon tire, and Riley and burns. Yeah. Like we’re really kind of away from everything. Oh, yeah. Oh, here it is. Yeah, is really remote. I remember. I remember seeing like some fighter jet. Like tests out here. You’d see him come up. And yeah, you seem like whoa, coming out of Klamath Falls doing their like simulated dogfights and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You seem like both. I remember one time we sound like Bolton over Australia in between, like heart mountain in the scenes, but they came out that senate Bay is Yeah, a few seconds to get to the top. We came up to the north end here. And then like, shot back down this way south into Nevada. Okay. And then, you know, went on from there. But yeah, it’s like, Wow, she’s moving around all the time. I remember like we have when we were out in the Steen’s for that ship like, and to the scenes and alvord. One of those days, maybe even two of them. There was like, one of the fighter jets that came over. Hey, do you see that afterburner, like roaring anywhere? And then you finally do spot it and it’s like, just like a speck like small fingernail your pinkies Yeah, in the sky, you know, arm’s length when you look out to there’s just like some little black speck that looks like what got to be that just like, yeah, to do that. You know? Yeah. Just for the afterburner on you actually. bolt through half of Oregon in 10 seconds. Yeah. Your blast, man. Just like 15 minutes. Yeah, I’ll be over Spokane in two minutes. from wherever in area 51. That was like kind of the old can see to like area 51 out in Nevada, you know, remote Nevada. But what’s north of remote Nevada? remote or? Like pick up here? And like, if you look at the map, it’s one of the most remote sections of the United States. We’re really almost all this is a public land.
Yeah. It’s awesome. When you look at the map like that, it’s you get to see how much of this is just open. Like, that’s what’s cool is you’re not like we’re just going wherever we want camping wherever we want. I really don’t have to worry about Yeah, trespassing. Yeah.
Part of it. Yeah, we were talking about that a little bit. Last night or yesterday, too. So how cool it is that there’s so much out here that we just get to drive around and hike through any part of it that we want. Yeah. And I really, I really love that for outdoor stuff. I always have a hard time when you get into places where you really have to just stick to the designated
area. handle it, especially a couple of times I have to do this you know, I want to go cowboy. Truck over one. I know how to walk in the
ins I can get her. I just feel like a dog on a leash. Yeah, like, like at a rest stop. Yeah. All right, go use the ground, but not too much.
Yeah, I don’t want to camp somewhere where there is a higher density of people then. Like the house that I live at in town.
Yeah, that’s another thing that I love about you out here. Is there is nobody else out here. You can’t be neighbors. Like, daddy. I love that. I love the generator. A lot of the day hope you don’t mind. Yeah, let’s march to right like this time of year. Oh, yeah. No competition besides out here.
Yeah, you can do anything out here right now. there nobody around like this. Yeah, zero competition. We should maybe even have to the hotsprings Oh, yeah. Yeah. What is that right now? Or it’s a way of looking like right at the mouth.
Yeah, but it’s
a three hour roundtrip? Yeah.
Past past 130 last night, so who knows? Maybe we’ll have some time or something like that. Yeah. I mean, tomorrow, Sunday. It’s kind of like,
do whatever we got to do tonight. Got to do. Yeah, it’d be really fun. I want to get a bunch of stuff done. I’m glad we’re doing this podcast. I want to do some bonus stuff. I wonder who’s shooting stuff?
Yeah. taking it easy.
Oh screws out somewhere. They can make a picnic lunch. Yeah, baloney down here at the plush store. Got a loved one.
You know what I was impressed though. When I started like you to fill up I paid 15 cents less and gown and I didn’t tell before I left. Oh, but which always trips me out. It’s like you get out to these remote areas where like, you got to figure the shipping to get it in here was so much more costly than what it was to bring him to a place that’s five minutes off the interstate. You know? We never seems to be that way. Sorry. We dropped the phone. It rattled loose around a gravelly washboard road because he doesn’t know I don’t know washboard is very much like driving over a washboard it’s the old cat tracks to get stuck in the road when they’re paving them. I thought it was a natural erosion path also too and then I talked to a guy that was doing a bunch of machine work and he was saying that washboard was for older cats bringing leveling out when they
graded Okay, so I couldn’t believe it but man I’ve seen it like get worse you know? Or does it is it does it start with the cat track and
then the erosion is like it’s packing only certain areas and then as it rains and stuff it just like erodes out those areas that haven’t been as heavily packed. Oh,
man, I’ve been on somewhere like it’s been graded and it’s alright but then like after a while like rains and stuff. Ah, man it just gets super bad. I think she’s still back there. She’s sitting here but you get on that watch for like going like 20 miles an hour that wrong frequency and it’s just like rattles the whole car.
It’ll like rally off the road. Have you ever felt out? Oh, yeah, you know, yeah. But honestly, the only way to really get through washboard like cuz I didn’t really realize that was there until just now because I’ve been doing like 60 on it. I’ve driven out so far. She’s like me, just like standing up with one leg on the rail and
it’s freaks me out when he passed he bought like flat in the back or some word track and they’re just like standing there. Yeah, like that. That’s where you beg you guys just cruising through down the corners and stuff with your dog just standing in the back.
I don’t know some people might have badass dogs man. Layla is a she’s a city slicker man. She looks like a sea slugger. And she does face in the wind. Well, you know she’s she’s adjusting get a couple more ticks on her a little more does. She’s gonna look like she’s born. She’s a wild dog. She’s gonna look like can I now run off of Robin, thanks for doing this podcast with me. This is Episode Seven. Read it. Thanks for hanging out for joining us our first guest star Thank you so much. Yeah, you guys. Yeah, that’s pretty cool. All right.
So yeah, we’re gonna cruise into forgot keys in the big city plush. Yeah. Pick up a couple. I don’t even know me but more water water. Water. That’s why we’re going out of water. We’re gonna cruise into flash. We’re gonna poke around some of the Larry’s around the lakes out here for a bit. Yeah. Try figure out some more stuff. Do another podcast tonight. That’ll be cool. We’ll keep you posted. Thanks, everybody for listening to this episode of The get out there podcast. Tune in again next time. We’ll have some more stuff. Thanks. Bye bye