American Go E-Journal

The Traveling Board: Oregon’s Alvord Desert

Saturday December 31, 2022

Pictured in the two-player shot: Left: Ty Bowen, 9kyu, right Zaquarie Mendenhall, 4 kyu. Group photo from left to right: Ty Bowen, Killian King (29 kyu), Forest Ferris (15 kyu), Zaquarie Mendenhall, Arleigh Des Jardin (28kyu). 

In August of 2021 the Grande Ronde Go Club in Oregon took a trip to the Alvord Desert in Southern Oregon, a vast, dry lake bed, to get away from the hustle and bustle and play some go, reports Ty Bowen.