The Forest Service announced the Danskin Mountains off-road riding area was opening up on Saturday April 24th, 2010. This was good news for me as I had a long planned hike in this area and wanted to try something
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Plan B was to Explore Pixley Basin Again
My rock hounding trip for Sunday April 18th, 2010 turned into a sightseeing ATV Trip. I had my trip mapped out. The GPS unit was all loaded with turns, waypoints and the location of the mining prospects I
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Photo of the Week Graffiti
Graffiti Moron Strikes Mountain Home To see a full size photograph: http://bondyweb.com///photo-of-week/graffiti-damage.html Richard Aguirre Park and swimming pool gets covered in graffiti during the weekend of April 9th -11th, 2010. Terrible, don’t you think? Thanks for visiting and commenting
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Hiking Peak 4439 in the Owyhee’s
Easy hike with lots of quartz, some opal and a few vugs. Peak 4439 is located just west of Birch Creek Road (aka Pixley Creek Basin Road?) so it’s rather easy to get there. While this hike looked a little
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ATV Trip to the J-P Desert
The forecast for Mountain Home on Sunday March 28th, 2010 was for temps in the 60’s and a little windy. This was good enough to take our first ATV trip and maybe find some geodes/thundereggs south of Grasmere, Idaho.
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Bennett Hills Hike Peak 5270
Monday March 22nd, 2010 Local Hike Just North of Mountain Home The warming Spring weather had me thinking about hiking the mountains north of Interstate 84 so I started looking around for an easy to get to hike on public
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