Sunday, July 05, 2015

Montana to Idaho

We left Edgewater, Lakeside, driving down US 93 to where it junctioned with US 12. We took US 12 South/West over Lolo Pass and down to Kamiah ID. That was quite a drive. It seemed that the grade would never end and there were enough turns to keep you awake. I loved it. But I was tired by the time we arrived at Long Camp RV. This is a nice little 22 site FHU campground right on the Clearwater river.

From this base we took several driving tours and visited many of the Nez Perce sites in the area. We had hoped to kayak but when we went to the Dworshank reservoirs Dent Acres  we found that the boat launch was quite steep and getting the kayaks back on the Jeep would be more than we wanted. So rather than retrace our route back to Orofino We took the route less traveled and soon ended up on a gravel road. The scenery was fantastic and we finally found our first stock, a lonely cow, on the road. We drove through Elk River, an old logging town which is now a, shall we say tourist, destination. Lots of 4 wheelers, folks riding in the bed of pickup's lots of campers tent and otherwise. Interesting country.

We stopped for lunch at what looked like an unmanned welcome area and decided to take the 2.5 mile drive to the falls. Another gravel road, some single track, to a parking area. We started to walk the path to the falls. After some distance we couldn't hear any falls and found that we had a 1/2 mile or more to go to the falls. We had left our water in the Jeep so we decided it would be be best to return to the Jeep and head home.

We made a stop in Kendrick and looked at the murals on a couple of buildings. After that short break we figured there would be an ice cream shop. Well there wasn't. We found a gas station where they sold ice cream so we stopped.

Then it was on home and time to sit in the river for a while.

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