Re: [ihc] Mildew, moss, and buckaroos.

[Colin MM Rush <salmineo@xxxxxxxx>]

That is one of the things I love about living in the West.  You still
find people like that around.  During our club's trek on the Oregon Back
Country Discovery Route this summer, we had a layover near Unity, Oregon
to wait for some folks to meet up with us.  I and a fellow named Phil
Hinds took a little detour while we were there, and stopped in at a
tavern for a beer.  We met this one old boy who was working up in the
hills as a logger, and who told lots of stories about his work, and some
of the local color.  A group of us also made the drive from there to
Prairie City to take a bath at a hot springs at a local ranch, and got
caught up in a cattle drive down the road.  We had to stop and wait for
it to pass, which took about 15 minutes.  Cattle were cruising right on
by both sides of the TravelAll I was in.  (Unfortunately the owner of the
ranch did not feel like being open that night, so our trip was for
naught, and we still needed a bath at the end.)  And some of us are
planning a trip over to the Steens Mountains next year, which is in the
corner of Oregon just north of Denio and Winnemucca, Nevada.  The last
time I went over there with my father and girlfriend, we decided to go up
this steep road in a pretty rugged draw on a mountain called Stonehouse,
and ran into a group of cowboys (or buckaroos) doing their work on
horseback, with chaps and all.  Then when we got to the top of
Stonehouse, there was a real stone house, in the form of an old abandoned
Basque homestead.  It should be a good trip next year.  I hope we run
into some more of the same.
-Colin Rush

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:05:54 -0700
From: "hofs" <hofs@domain.elided>
Subject: [ihc] Mildew, moss, and buckaroos.
 
> Remember you weather wenie, I had to tell John H. what
> mildew on his top was.  Never seen it at his age,
> which is even greater than my age.
> 
> Steve
 
Obviously though, by his own admission, Steve gathers more fungi than I,
regardless of age. The old saying about a rolling 
stone gathers no moss, (not a fungus) must not always hold since I don't
roll much and still am not particularly mossy. <g>
 
By the way, we've been here in Elko now for two weeks and we've had the
best time you could possibly have. We've been 
adopted by an old "Buckaroo" who owns this RV Park and he has taken us on
backcountry tour after backcountry tour. 
Wonderful trips with magnificent fall color.
 
Plus the grand old guy has dozens of stories about the characters from
his past as a buckaroo. By the way, he says that 
anybody can be a cowboy, but buckaroos are the real thing. 
 
Weather forecast is for this Indian Summer to end, so maybe we'll move
on. 
 
John

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