Friday - Drive from Boring to Baker - about 300 miles. Saturday: (approx 200 miles driving) ***DN15/DN14*** Start the contest off at the DN15/DN14 line on highway 30. I am not sure how effective this place will be for 2 meters - but it's worth a try to get a baseline. It does allow you to operate from both grids with minimal antenna work - as you can move the fully assembled beams (and perhaps the mast) across the grid line. The rules have this to say about moving to another grid square: 1.11.A station located precisely on a dividing line between grid squares must select only one as the location for exchange purposes. A different grid-square multiplier cannot be given without moving the complete station (including antennas) at least 100 meters. ***DN05*** A decision point comes after operating from DN15/DN14. You can get to DN05 with a short drive. The factors that will play into this decision are whether or not six meters is open. If six IS open, you probably will want to get into DN05 ASAP and take advantage of that. If six is not open and you were not feeling loud on 2 meters into Portland/Seattle, then I would suggest driving to Deadman Pass and getting on from there. This is a prime VHF location to the west and north. The quick way to DN05: Drive north on I84 to the next offramp - Wolf Creek Lane. Drive west to the resovoir and setup there. Deadman Pass: Get on I84 going "west" and get off at Exit 224, Poverty Flat Road. You can get off at the rest stop at the previous offramp and drive on the old road to get there. Note the communications towers. Another good DN05 place is going over the summit on US395. This happens at 45.270 and -118.977. Elevation is 4279 feet at milepost 39.70. There is a web cam there. ***DN04*** If you went to Deadman Pass - you best choice is to head to Ritter Butte Lookout. This is on 395 on the other side of the mountains. Location is 44.834N 119.067W. Simply drive down to the valley and 395 takes off from I84. However, if you were wanting to go over the mountain from Baker city (like six meters is just nuts and nobody is on 2 at all), then you can take Highway 7 instead. A place on highway 7 is 44.653N 118.413W. There are dirt roads going each way off the road. The summit is just a little south of there (200 feet?). ***DN03 and DN02*** Another decision is where to spend the night. Typically - there isn't much activity after 0600Z. Obviously - if six is open when you drive into DN03, you will want to take advantage of that as soon as possible. You do this as you head towards Burns (but well before then). There is a rest stop on 395/20 a ways west of Burns that you can use to crash for awhile. Probably first thing in the morning, you will want to operate from the DN03/DN02 line from Little Juniper Mountain at an elevation of 5200 feet. Out of Burns - take 395/20 going west. After about 25 miles, 395 will split off and head south. Just after mile marker 48, you will see Big Juniper Road on the left - take that about 500 feet to Bacon Camp Road. Follow Bacon Camp road up the hill. You will be able to get to both DN03 and DN02. If you don't want to go up the hill, you can still get to both grid squares from 395. If you want - you can actually get to CN93 by taking the road that goes west from 395 at Big Juniper Road. This would be an option if six is open. I think there are better places to operate CN93 for VHF purposes however and you will be spending plenty of time driving through it later. Location of Big Juniper Road is 42.997N 119.991W. There is another mountain about 10 miles northwest of there if you are feeling like it. ***CN92*** Continue south on 395 - about 15 miles south of Big Juniper Road, there is a high spot > 5000 feet. Just past mile marker 59 - you will find a rest stop on the left side of the road. This might be a reasonable spot to try to operate from and see how successful you are on VHF to compare to the DN03/DN02 spot - or a comfortable place to operate six meters for awhile. You can either keep going south and then head up highway 31 - or go back up 395 to Christmas Valley/Wagontire Road. CV/W Road looks nice as you are out in the open - no mountains close by. South on 395 - go to the junction with Highway 31 - which is at mile marker 90. Take Highway 31 west towards Paisley. That is - unless you want to drive another 10-12 miles and take 140 east for a couple of miles and try your luck back to Portland. About 10 miles past Paisley - there will be some good mountain tops to the south of the road. One has a green sign - not sure what it says - but this will take you up and you should have a great shot to the north. Looks like the mile marker just right at the turn is something with a 7 on the end of it - maybe 87? Looks like they are counting down to Hwy 97. However, that QTH doesn't really have a good shot back to Portland - mostly only good due north and to the east. ***CN93*** The first good opportunity for CN93 looks to be shortly after you get into CN93 on highway 31 - and get up to about 5000 feet. This happens after you go around Summer Lake and you climb up to a pass. There is a rest stop just as you get into CN93 going up the hill. Might have a good shot back to the east? There will be a cliff going up on the right side of the road - as you are going almost due north. After a bit - things open up to the north nicely. There is a butte that you can get to if you want to try. Take County Highway 514 off to the right - then another right. Another option is to go east of bend about 15 miles - and operate on a north/south road that covers both CN93 and CN94. ***CN94*** You could operated from the east of bend at the CN93/CN94 line. Helps get you away from the mountains. Another option is to go through sisters and over the mountain on Highway 22 - you should be good and loud into Portland and Seattle as you crest the mountain on 2 meters. You then drop into CN84 and CN85 if you really wanted to put more grids on the air.