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| CANOE CAMP |
Still
travelling with our friends we headed east into Idaho, stopping at a
couple of Nez Perce Historical Park sites – firstly, Canoe Camp or
Ahsakha Village site – where the famous Lewis & Clark built
canoes with the help of the Indians to continue their journey to the
Pacific in 1805 and then Heart of the Monster, a mound of earth with
a fabulous Nez Perce story about how Coyote protected the animals
from the Monster by being eaten by the Monster and how the blood
became the Nez Perce tribe, (shortened version) a young guy who was
going fishing stopped to tell us the story.
We
passed through an active wildfire along the Lochsa River, thick
smoke and fire debris in the air made for poor air and views and
camped for free for the night in the middle of nowhere at a campsite
by the Lochsa River.
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| HEART OF THE MONSTER |
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WILDFIRE SMOKE
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Over
Lolo Pass and into Montana, mountain time – an hour lost. We had a
short hike on the way to some hot springs up in the wilderness,
dipped our feet in and had a chat with some Montana folk.
I
find it amazing that as we looked across the Lochsa River there was
the Selway – Bitterroot Wilderness is 1,340,587 acres of roadless
wilderness. That is larger than the landmass of Delaware, which has
almost one million residents.
We are now in Lolo Hot Springs RV resort, in cold weather so we all had a lovely morning in the Hot Springs at 104oF and swimming in the outside pool at 84oF. Hoping the weather improves!
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| WARM SPRINGS |
The weather turned cold with the odd sprinkles as we moved camp and headed south down the Bitterrooot Valley, we lunched at Lake Como, totally deserted apart from a bald eagle.
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| LAKE COMO |
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| LAKE COMO BALD EAGLE |
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| WHITE TAILED DEER, WE WENT OUT IN THE EVENING LOOKING FOR ELK AND BIGHORN SHEEP - JUST SAW LOTS OF DEER. |
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