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Nice video! Thanks for sharing!

❤ThankYou! Many, Many, Blessings ❤

It has been many years since I last drove the steens man. I wonder why there are no ponderosa or lodgepole pine growing on the mountain?

Tried to track your route on my Benchmark maps. Difficult. did not know what roads you were taking or what direction. Some of those roads I probably would not choose to travel on.

Beautiful area!

Awesome video

Another nice video. Thank you and keep it up

The green field is an airstrip, several of the ranch houses used to be and are hopefully going to again be rentable guesthouses by the BLM - we camped at the airstrip, later found 2 of the houses were open and we could have stayed in them. The rock house was the original Morrison Ranch house, Mr. Morrison gave his name to a unique jasper found in the area - mostly directly uphill from his house several thousand feet higher! I happened to walk by there, and found a cool rock in the road near his house; only after the trip found the history of the Morrisonite mining claims above the ranch. Two wheel drive not recommended, unless you have high clearance and time to wait for the road to dry out after rains!!

Very nice work on this trip. Awesome scenery well documented

Good for my soul as well🎉

Makes me crave a Ruby Mountain Pale Ale.

I took the kids on this route some years ago. We started at Jordan Valley and exited at Grandview. We camped at the North Fork campground, which was nice. I believe there are 4 or perhaps 5 sites, and they are spaced widely, to give privacy. While we didn't see many fish in the river, we greatly enjoyed seeing pairs of river otters working their way up and down from the bridge. There is a caution to not drive the road during periods of soaking rains. The clay composition of the road is such that it will become severely rutted, and the wheel wells of your vehicle will fill with clay, which sets up like concrete, trapping you. There is a large sign at the beginning with a message to effect of "if you get stuck, you won't be rescued" or something similar.

We were coming from the north heading south, and I had heard some talk of a locked gate at the south entrance to the Butler wash Road side, didn’t want to take the chance.

A couple of friends and myself just ggot back from camping up at Knott Creel Reservoir, which is pretty close to Onion and Blue Lakes. I love the solitude of that entire area from Soldier Meadows Ranch up to Denio.

I just returned from 12 days in Eastern Oregon, spent two nights in the Steens, 9,600 feet elevation. My first visit there. Filled my rig with dust from gravel and dirt forest roads. Especially the Sunstone collection area and up into Christmas Valley. Fine brown dust, and lots of wind. Deschutes National forests roads, all dusty. Lot of fire damage too, every national forest I went through, miles and miles of burnt Pine forest. Some places the bigger trees looked OK, fire didn't get into the crowns. But other areas, with smaller, closer together trees, all burned. I could sit quietly, and hear the pine beetle larvae chewing from dozens of burned trees, piles of chewed up sawdust visible around nearly every tree. That was in the Malheur national forest, Aldrich mountains. I really enjoyed sagebrush country, the quiet, and the solitude. My low clearance vehicle did not enjoy some of the BLM two tracks I insisted we go exploring on, but I made it out OK. Definitely going back next year.

God, thank you for love and understanding and gentleness and caring throughout the earth. From the beginning of time to the end of days in Jesus mighty name. Amen 🙏

We opted for comb wash road instead. It’s on the west side. We were the only ones on the road and it was no problem, but does require four-wheel-drive in several areas of deep sand.

I enjoyed you video and subscribed. Thank you for sharing.

Outstanding, thanks for posting this video. The Bighorns are one of my favorite areas in all of the US that I have traveled, so far.

Hopefully, the power structure in Utah will leave Bears Ears alone.

I look forward to an episode that shows the east side of the mountain/fault block. Equally fantastic....Alvord Desert, Borax Lake, Fields, etc. - maybe you've already done one (?) ...did a bikecamping trip circumnavigating the mountain 2 years ago...wow! prettty fantastic!

You are in Claude Dallas country. Worked with a former government coyote trapper who knew Claude many years ago in SE Oregon. I understand Claude is still alive and well. A living legend.

Appreciate this look at a state I know little about...Pretty country! I love the vastness of our southwest states! Like you can drive off the edge of the earth... The Winters ranch was quite something - you're right, lotsa work on that one - consider dragging and hewing all those rock pieces! My gosh, that took serious determination. I always wonder what happened to these windswept, abandoned places: too hardscrabble, couldn't make a go of it? a death by one, forcing a move away by the other? Death by both, no heirs? or the heirs didn't want it? So, it's overtaken by time..... How marvelous to see the wild horses! Had to wonder if that one horse looking at you was just curious or had been with people, and possibly turned out...? Those roads are amazing, you clearly had confidence in your auto > ain't no AAA comin' to help you, should you need it :) I have to go find this area on my road atlas - so interesting!!! Thank you :)

I have been there multiple times. It is the most remote place I have ever been. Cherry Creek Canyon is🔥.

Wow, wide open country. I wonder if so many wild horses limit the native Pronghorn Antelope population?

Beautiful

Did you need to pass through a gate at the South entry to the road, where you exit Hwy. 163? Thanks for the video BTW!!

I spent a year in Northern Nevada and relish memories of it and its people, wild horses, pronghorns, road runners & magpies 14:22 ; I enjoyed watching this ride.

A beautiful part of America. The isolation and silence is spectacular! Drove through there many years ago. Saw no body!!!!

Beautiful country, photography and narrative. Thank you !

I feel at home in country like that. Eastern Montana and western North Dakota is where. It looks like “nothing” to many. In the book, Travels With Charley, Steinbeck felt that the Badlands of North Dakota was a hellscape until night time. He changed his perspective then. There is so much life and beauty and danger in those landscapes.

Classic basin and range.

First rule of the ION: NEVER pass an open gas station. Fantastic country! It's easy to imagine being out there on horseback in the 1800s, back when you didn't need roads OR gas.

I was raised in NE Colorado during the '40's and '50's. There is a somewhat similarity to the terrain. Colorado probably has a few more prickly pear cactus, but was about as open and desolate . probably not as big area wise. Northern Nebraska sandhills has a lot of wide open areas also. Just he same it is pretty desolate also.

Great trip. I like the gentle pacing and music as well. This reminds me of the time about 1995 I took the road from Idaho through Silver City and then on to Jordan Valley. Did it on a lark with zero preparation. Made it through OK but I remember some spots the road was extremely rough.

I love-hated your long follow of the mud-rut driver! Most of my experience has been back-roads in the snow, but I chuckled at the thought, one thing that dude was not going to do was stop! That was a kamikaze run! :)

Love the choice of scenery every time. The more remote the better.

Looks like Claud Dallas country.

67, bad knees and health up and down. Thank you for bringing us to beautiful places some of us can no longer travel to.

Lake Bonneville

Very interesting. Thanks for taking me along for the ride!

Just remember that most all this land is BLM. And you can't buy it. Camping time is limited and wilderness forbids motorized anything.

You need to Vary your music, My god how can you expect anyone to listen to that same stuff over and over and over and over ? ? ?

I visited the Henry mountains about five years ago, in Fall, shortly before the hunting season. (I'm not a hunter, but hunters were scouting spots). It is pretty amazing to see a over a hundred buffalo, grazing near the upper peaks, but on the opposite (west?) side of the pass. I was surprised to learn that a limited number of tags are issued to hunt buffalo.

Would have liked less music and more meadowlark.

It is absolutely beautiful up there. So happy I made it up there last year.

I’m very new to your channel…..could you possibly do a video about how you should prepare for back woods travel like you do?

BIG DEAL, NEVADA IS A DRY STATE AND THE PINES ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN

Thanks for this video. I was there some years ago now and enjoyed it. It was too late in the year to hike to Blue b/c snow was in the offing. Sorry that I missed that hike. OVR was closed to all fishing a couple of years back. I heard from BLM sources that it was due to high mercury content. At times when fishing was allowed, there were stern warnings about eating any fish and severe restrictions recommended on same. There's another reservoir close(ish) to there that also had the mercury problem. I don't know the current status on that.

There’s a video on a UA-cam channel called softroadingthewest and he went by the Chevy that’s off the road. But in his video you can see the snow drift that they slid off of.