Piss Ant Butte

My first two surveys were within the Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve. 

I'm vegetarian - please let me pass!

Big water trucks travel this little road at all hours bringing water to the cattle. 

Got caught in a 20 minute hail storm.

 Met a sheep dog.

When I pulled up alongside the herd, he jumped off the boulder where he stood sentinel and ran barking toward my rig. A dog with a job. 

I spent two days here counting WEME, BRSP, and HOLAs.

Bands of three or four Horned Lark travel the dirt roads. 

Photo by Rob. 

When I got back to my rig, cattle had licked it all over.