#clarno

Clarno is not as remote as it was 60 or 100 years ago, but even on a busy weekend a car only drives by on the highway every 5 minutes or so. It is quiet, isolated, and one of the gems of Oregon.

August 23, 2010

Excellent day with perfect weather with @kkatieclarkk in Clarno today after spending last night at my brother's cabin @ranchorelaxo_cabin on Mt. Hood. Had great luck in some roadcuts and along the John Day, finding a bunch of stellar agate, petrified wood, opal, calcite and jasper. Check out Katie's sick tube agate! #rocks #rockhounding #oregon #agate #agates #rocks #petrifiedwood #banding #chalcedony #silica #tubeagate #rockhound #clarno #jeffersoncounty #antelope #rajneesh #johndayriver #centraloregon (at Clarno, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/BotrRrTncpj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3bdqupl0mac1

Nothing makes me feel more at home than the Clarno Basin, where I work 10 weeks out of the year. If it’s the purple ancient soil-turned-claystone of the Clarno Formation, the vistas of the Basalt-rimmed John Day Canyon, or the solitary Common Sunflower that blooms in the middle summer, it always beckons me back. Top to bottom: What I call the “Purple Basin” above what we call Equisetum Canyon at Hancock Field Station, a lovely vista of the John Day Canyon, and a sunflower atop the ridge that forms the spine of the Clarno Unit of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument.

John Day Fossil Beds, Clarno, Oregon

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