Get Out There | 04 Backpacking The Wallowa Mountains and King Range

Backpacking stories from the Wallowa mountains in northeast Oregon.

Robert talks about his experience backpacking through a thunderstorm.

Billy Newman Robert Biscarret

hey what’s going on this is billy newman and i’m here with robert bisque arete we’re recording the get out there podcast how you doing Robert hey I’m doing good Billy how are you it’s cool man I’m doing good up here and yes thanks for calling in tonight record an episode 4 of the get out there podcast it’s kind of cool man I like like doing this it is yeah it’s been a great time how you like in this rain oh man it was kind of what you know is we consorted a four part of it was alright like I was getting through the day and then the last half of it was just like a ton of rain how was it done or you uh it was a pretty good for us today it’s raining pretty heavily now I’ve actually been working out in Northern California this last week oh so I mean the weather’s been a little bit different kind of getting outside of the valley typically a little bit more sunshine then we get here in the valley but ugh but yeah now that I’m back in the valley it’s free were you were you out past the siskiyou over there in that part of Northern California yeah yeah up there in the Hills area oh I’ve been on the hill area a couple times yeah I think I went out there with Tyler once to the to the Buddhist temple oh good I’ll day before no as far as I knew is all that existed there was a liquor store well the liquor store I mean that’s what’s in hill but I think yeah all of the town around that all stars like harasses the freeway exit not where you would see a Buddhist temple but no there’s that I think there’s a road it’s whatever that first exit is once you get over the sis queues and into California as you come back down that back sides is that first exit it might not be a hill but it was right right there right in that area you take that and that and you cut back west along along the ridge of the South lie into the mountains and you go back a little ways and you kind of cut up a bit and it’s like no we’re still out there there’s just like there’s like a couple like ghost town area okay it looks like in like I know but like one of those uh kind of or railroad sections like where they would stack up cars something like yeah but then yeah you just turn there you go up into the woods little further and you end up at this pretty impressive Buddhist temple like it’s been there for years yeah i guess like that the Ashland hippies kind of bought it and set it up and you know get was going to say is that a hot spot like that that weird hundreds of 50 miles between ready ashlynn is that nobody lives in is that just like I think it’s a it’s full re Reaper tranquility ok and it’s but it’s exactly you go up there I think we took taking pictures as a before but that they like have all the Buddhist flags a flyer you know like on the side of the hills that you can watch it sky it’s kind of cool it’s like a pretty impressive structure that they’d build out there like it looks like an ornate Chinese building and then lower them there’s like these columns that are all painted red with like you know ornate symbols on them and they like spin and it’s like pretty big like drum system that goes and there’s like 12 of them and they like all spin as you go into this temple wow it’s not yeah yeah it’s a pretty heavy-duty temple for just out in the backcountry I don’t let him know whe