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Owyhee County is the largest county in Idaho. This county is, essentially, southwest Idaho. It' s expansive to say the least. Depending on how you look at it, the area is either one of the least populated parts of Idaho, or the most densly populated. As far as people go, there's not too many. Mormon crickets on the other hand, there's more than a few. A few trillion actually. Owyhee County has a rather grotesque carpet of living and dead cricket exoskeletons. Hiking, you eventually get used to the crunching sound.
Owyhee County is where one may discover the Owyhees. The Owyhees are mountains, high plateaus, rolling hills, canyonlands, grazeland, or sand dunes depending on the context of a given conversation. An interesting fact regarding the name "Owyhee" is that it is an old-time misspelling of "Hawaii." A couple of centuries ago, fur trappers hired several people from Hawaii for the purpose of trapping in southwest Idaho. These tropical transplants were dropped off there and never seen again. Another people who spent time in the Owyhees were Basque sheep herders from the Northern regions of Spain. Today, these proud people are commonly found celebrating their heritage on the streets of downtown Boise. There are very few people still living in the Owyhees these days, unless you want to count ranchers whose herds are scattered across nearly every square mile of that scubby, scarred land.
One more fact. The Owyhees are often talked about, but they are largely untouched. Type "Owyhee trails" in Google, do the research, and you'll find that there is no real trail "system" in the county to speak of. There are very few actual hiking trails. Sure its trendy for Boiseans to rave about the Owyhees, but how many actually make the 45 minute trip to visit them? Loving that land is tough love because, well, it doesn't really love you back. It offers very little in the way of pleasant breezy hikes through forests and meadows a la' the Sawtooths. Boiseans find themselves at the foot of fortress-like basalt cliffs and ask themselves, "Now what?". The Owyhees are windswept, rugged, unforgiving, relentless, endless, and even lonely. While its beauty is as striking as its sky is wide, nobody really wants to be dropped off there for an extended period of time.
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