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A. Top of the rim at Hole in the Ground

A. Top of the rim at Hole in the Ground

The rim was dynamited by Conley and the road bulldozed by a CCC Cat operator.


B.  Hole in the Ground Ranch

B. Hole in the Ground Ranch

Seen from atop Stacia's Back Stoop.


C. Stacia's Back Stoop

C. Stacia's Back Stoop

Seen here from just below the East rim, this basalt formation is just down river from the Davis ranch house. Also unimaginatively know as Devil's Tower.


D. Hole in the Ground Ranch House

D. Hole in the Ground Ranch House

This is the house built by Conley and Stacia Davis in 1934. See her comments about the house in "Early Life in the Owyhee" Chapter 2. This view looks downstream.


F. Hole in the Ground Ranch House

F. Hole in the Ground Ranch House

The chimney was constructed from river rock.


G.  Hole in the Ground Ranch

G. Hole in the Ground Ranch

View upstream from the front of the house.


H.  Hole in the Ground Ranch

H. Hole in the Ground Ranch

The living room.


I.  Hole in the Ground Ranch

I. Hole in the Ground Ranch

Remnants of the oldest building on the ranch and the only one BLM thinks qualifies for historical preservation.


J.  Petroglyphs

J. Petroglyphs

Downstream from the Hole in the Ground ranch. This site is badly in need of fencing or some other form of protection from vandals.


K.  Petroglyphs

K. Petroglyphs

This sign is pretty much the BLM protection for the Hole in the Ground Peteroglyphs downstream from the ranch house.


L.  Hole in the Ground

L. Hole in the Ground

At sunrise with the moon still high in the morning sky. Taken at the end of July 2010, the temperature that day was 106ยบ.


M. Hole in the Ground Ranch from Rinehart Ranch

M. Hole in the Ground Ranch from Rinehart Ranch


N. Owyhee Canyon Upstream from Hole in the Ground

N. Owyhee Canyon Upstream from Hole in the Ground