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.
With strokes of luck and intuition, RK and I ended up in the perfect place. We can observe the Milky Way in the night sky with owls and coyotes as the soundtrack. The forest is just down the street,