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Sleepwalking from Malheur David B. Ring Step by step, Steens Mountain rises in wide and rippling waves of grass that hide its gradual height, till we come to the edge of Kiger Gorge and look down amazed at its long meadows where toy cattle, tiny as ants, quietly graze in the green below. Further we come to the final escarpment, and look out east to the Alvord Desert, while the land takes a fall below our feet, breaking the dream of the drowzing slope in an eager plunge to the arid plain. Step by step, we stalk the edge, the choice not taken, the tipping point. Will we awake? Will we go on? Copyright © David B. Ring, 2010