Saturday, June 16, 2007

Bye-bye Oregon hello Idaho



Shortly after leaving Baker City there appeared a florescent yellow up ahead, yeah another biker. It was a gentleman by the name of Rick, I had him meet briefly the day before at the library. The miles began to tick away as we chatted and approached the Idaho border. We were on our way to the bottom of Hells Canyon, on the way we stopped at an awesome town called Halfway that was overshadowed by even more amazing mountains the Seven Devils. The camp ground in Hells Canyon turned out to be super nice.

After a wonderful night of sleep we headed out for Council Idaho. The climb out of Hells Canyon was not so bad just a little hot. As we rolled into Council we decided to stay for free at the town park. Council was filled with big trucks, and cowboy boots, and here we were these guys wearing that stretchy spandex, we did not exactly fit in we might as well have been dressed in drag. After the bars closed echos of big trucks going fast filled the town, but our camp stayed calm except a couple of dogs that visited us in the early morning hours.

Today we are headed to the town of Riggins it sets right on the Snake River so I figure it will be filled with friendly river trash type people

1 comment:

Beth said...

Welcome to Idaho Josh!
You've come a long way already....
glad you've found a biking buddy for awhile. Looks like beautiful country.
Hope you had fun hanging with the river people and are settled into the saddle for another day of riding.
Talk to you soon!