The summer of 2020 has pushed people to be outside. This is great! People should
spend more time outside. For those of us who crave solitude in the outdoors,
however, we have to
Horse Butte is a small red cinder cone a mile from my house. There is a trailhead there, otherwise, it would just be another one of dozens (hundreds?) of buttes that pop up from the ground for miles to the south and east of the Cascade Mountains in Central Oregon.
I rarely run with anyone other than my dog, Mack. When I am getting dressed to run he doesn’t wait by the door. He sticks with me as I brush my teeth, pull on a jacket, get a drink of water, up the stairs and back down, until he is out the door, assured of going with me.