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Pacific time=tired time

June 21, 2024June 21, 2024 / rugreen4u4632 / Leave a comment

Dworshak State Park has been a nice reprieve but I have to admit, I’m going to be soo happy to quit getting up at 4:30 to get to work by 8 edt. The sun is up when I get up at 4:30 and goes down after I put my sleep mask on. Stella, the firefly petunia, is probably glowing so bright the neighbors have to put their sunglasses on, but I haven’t seen her since Fort Collins.

We’ve gotten a couple of good rides on the bikes, took a nice run, took a hike, & played lots of guitar. We leave tomorrow out the steep scary road. Seriously y’all, I have angst.

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Dog pack in action.

Panhandle of Idaho

June 19, 2024 / rugreen4u4632 / 1 Comment

Left the black bear rv park in McCall Idaho. Thank you for the best shower I’ve had so far on this trip.

We left McCall headed to Dworshak Lake which was treacherous. We climbed, we tested the engine then we tested the trailer brakes.

Google sent us the wrong way but we got to see the dworshak dam before testing the engine and brakes

There was a campground with a view of the dam, but George intelligently suggested if anything happens at the dam. It’s best to be nowhere near it …

There was alcohol required at the end of this downhill. This does not depict the curves AT ALL. That’s all I have to say. Sip.

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Sawtooth mountains, Idaho. We love you.

June 16, 2024 / rugreen4u4632 / Leave a comment

We spent the last 4 days in the Sawtooth recreation Area. The NRA is a great dog friendly beautiful park. It’s got mountains, lakes, dog beaches and great camping facilities.

Off to McCall, Idaho.

Craters of the moon

July 14, 2021July 14, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 2 Comments

We were going to stay a while longer in the Sawtooth mtns and Skip our Yellowstone reservations since dogs can’t hike in Yellowstone, but the smoke was so dense we couldn’t justify staying.

We got to craters of the Moon and wow! I 😍 volcanos. We slept in the lava field and took a perfect evening walk to the top of a cinder cone.

Two new things I saw were splatter cones and lava tubes/caves which were really cool.

We had a late dinner but check out this campsite. #campgroundschef made trout which was delicious.

Sawtooth mnts

July 14, 2021July 14, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 1 Comment

Woke up to gorgeous views and got good intel from a native in hikers. Woke up in sunny gulch with this cute t@g view. Then we drove to redfish Sandy Beach to catch the shuttle. Pics of lots of pointing.

We walked up the valley a ways before turning back to bench lakes. The hike was great but we probably all over heated a bit. Here are some of those amazing Sawtooth pics.

The Trail to bench lakes was super dusty with that fine grain dust. I tried to catch it in a picture. The horse flies were an added nuisance but we made it to the beach and even had a pretty amazing sunset at the campsite. All on all a fantastic day even though Ringo found a dead fish at the salmon River and decided to roll around on it. So, we had to wash him under the water pump. We’ve probably scarred him for life. Oh well.

Sawtooth Mtns Campground: Sunny Gulch

July 12, 2021July 12, 2021 / rugreen4u4632 / 2 Comments

Drove through the Redfish lake campgrounds even though they all said full… After striking out there, we moseyed over to sunny gulch campground and got a primo spot with a view.

The campground host laughed at us that we thought we would grab a spot in one of the 6 redfish campgrounds… Oh well. We are 2 miles from there. We Plopped our bums in the river and George worked since we have connectivity. We hit their laundry and showers. It was almost like we were there. Admin day. No pictures of our laundry but I assure you that we got everything done. Tomorrow we hike.

Sunny Gulch Campground fast fact: Sunny Gulch Campground has the nicest pit toilet you can hope to have. Leah, I have now experienced your pit toilet happiness experience.