Dutch Flat loop

On Sunday, we decided to get out for breakfast.  Had same at a place in town, then decided to see where Dry Hollow Road goes.  We found it goes out through orchard (cherry mostly), then into farmland.  After a while it turns to gravel.  Hey, we were in a rental car, and you can do anything in those!  We still had enough GPS to know where we were, so we proceeded.  Turned roughly north onto Dutch Flat road.  We stopped at two grain storage bins, seeing both Mt Hood (near enough) and Mt Adams (far away). 

We passed a combine operation, as the wheat harvest is still in full swing. 

Then we wended our way back over about 15 miles of gravel road.  Skyline Road is just that:  high on the plateau and right at the edge of steep falloffs.  I drove in the middle of the road, and even in the left lane to hug the hillside.  The land had clearly been range land, shown by all the decrepit barbed wire fencing.  What wasn’t fallow range land was in wheat … thousands on thousands of acres.  After skinnying our way back down the road, we got back into The Dalles.  Top speed on those back roads was 20 mph!