My heart leapt as soon as we hit the playa. The car's tires breezed across the flat, wide-open space, wind whipping through the open windows. The empty desert opened and stretched on for miles, for ...
Boise State University physics professor Brian Jackson brought a team of scientists to the Alvord Desert in southeast Oregon in June 2024 to study dust devils — small whirling cyclones of dust that ...
Burt Alvord’s wild-west life — peppered with gun battles and train robberies as he ultimately worked both sides of the law — is commemorated by a road on Tucson’s south side. Alvord, whose full name ...
No. 6 in my countdown of the most scenic Oregon landscapes. The countdown continues here daily until Jan. 1, when No. 1 is revealed. BIG SAND GAP (ALVORD DESERT) Steens Mountain in Harney County has ...
It looks like a desert mirage. A sailboat, racing across a stone flat and waterless playa, its glittering metallic hull materializing on approach like a Star Wars landspeeder hovering above a desert ...
A well-known 39-year-old racer attempting to break a land speed record in a jet-powered vehicle was killed in a fatal crash Tuesday afternoon on the Alvord Desert in southeast Oregon, officials said ...
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