On Sunday, August 29, my son, Christopher, daughter, Catherine and I had breakfast at the Sleep Inn. We traveled from Redmond to Bend, Prineville, Spray, Heppner, Pilot Rock and Pendleton. We drove to the top of Pilot Butte in Bend to do a Virtual and photograph the benchmark. From Prineville, Oregon we took Hwy 26 east about 60 miles and then north about 7 miles to the bold yellow and red striped Painted Hills. We ate our picnic lunch in Mitchell at a park with a really tall children’s slide.
After our picnic lunch we visited Sheep Rock Unit where Christopher left both GPSr in the Men’s Restroom. We discovered they were missing an hour later when we were a couple miles north of the Visitor Center. We were able to retrieve them from a young man that found them. I was really worried that we would run out of gas before we got to Pendleton as we traveled through the dark, deserted hills. We had dinner at Shari’s Restaurant in Pendleton about 9:00 PM. We stayed the night in Room 202 at the Best Western, 400 SE Nye Avenue in Pendleton.
The highlights of the day were the Scenic Viewpoint at Pilot Butte, a 511-ft-high cinder cone; viewing the Painted Hills; and visiting the Thomas Condon Paleontology Center at Sheep Rock Unit (John Day Fossil Beds). We found 9 caches and 6 benchmarks.
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