Usually our excursions start early morning, but this weekend we left the house after sunset.
There is a chance to see the northern lights and we were headed to a better viewing point.
The place we had in mind was a side road just south of Fort Rock.
If this works we could have an ancient rock formation in the foreground of a natural phenomena.
Only hitch is there’s an active wildfire on the eastside of the Fremont Highway above Horse Ranch Canyon, only 10 minutes from Fort Rock.
We will not be deterred.
Coffee in the thermos, paper bags stuffed with popcorn and the camera batteries all charged up.
Was well worth the effort . . . though it should be noted that your phone is the best viewer for aurora watching.