PART TWO

We'll we're headed down to McDermitt this Friday and taking a week to get as many miles as we can under our belts as the weather seems to be clearing most of this week. We expect to hike the first segment from the state corner 25 miles westward and then another 15-20 miles west from where we left off done this weekend. The segment between McDermitt and Denio will be tough logistically and physically and we're likely to skip the middle 15 miles until the snow melts as it includes a ridge of nearly 8,000 feet in altitude. We're taking my larger camper shell and two off road type mini-bikes I picked up a couple of weeks ago. We'll likely sleep in the camper and use the mini-bikes to shuttle from start to finish or vice versa. We actually figure we'll use the bikes to get to the start point because we'd rather ride in my truck in the dark after walking 15-20 miles than ride the mini-bike back to the day's starting point. We're hoping to get at least a hundred miles done in the coming week and get close to Goose Lake, but we haven't recon'd the area west of Denio so there's no telling how much snow is in that country. We'll have to leap frog the hundred miles or so around to the Denio valley and work from there probably on Monday. Wish us luck - we'll be posting pictures as we can.