Our delay in Yreka is over! Charlotte seemed to be running okay so we attached the Barbarian Invader to the fifth wheel and headed north into Oregon.
My usually superb scheduling of RV spots for the future appears to have gone off the rails. We only moved the trailer about 50 miles to the Glenyan RV Park a few miles south of Ashland. It may be our shortest travel distance in 3 years. We even arrived too early for the former inhabitant of our space to vacate it and we had to wait a bit. Not long after she departed, we were set up in Space 31 with a nice creek running right behind our trailer.
After some congratulatory shots, we decided to go for a spin. Our first stop was Caldera Brewing, right down the road. We ordered a flight of porter and ale and set about determining which we liked best. We soon agreed on a product called South Side Ale and ordered a couple pints. We also were able to acquire a very tasty small pizza, a savory cheeseburger and a snazzy salad with Lemon Caesar dressing. We also learned the South Side Ale we liked was on sale so we picked up a case for future use.
Departing from the brewery long before we had an opportunity to get tanked, Peggy decided we should go east and check out the terrain above Ashland. We started our tour by going east on the politically-incorrectly named Dead Indian Memorial Road which corkscrews up the sides of some very pretty mountains before getting to a pass at 5100′. Beyond is pretty forest and pasture country with some gorgeous scattered lakes. We spent quite a bit of time looking at what we thought was Mount McLoughlan, a 9500′ peak that looks suspiciously like a volcano. We continued on Dead Indian until Howard Prairie Lake where we turned south along the shorelines of Howard Prairie Lake and Hyatt Reservoir. The country there is gorgeous. We eventually emerged at the corner of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument and onto OR-66 which we used to head back toward Ashland. Up at the top of 66 we were at about 4500′ but the screwy road drops off at about 7% so in about 20 minutes we were on the flats near Ashland at about 2400′ elevation. It seems it would be a terrible road to travel with any RV longer than about 20′. Good brakes are necessary here.
We took some pix. Click here