July 17, 9:30 AM
119667
Off for Idaho
Discover 16.72 gal @ $347.9 $58.18
Gas prices are 7 cents per gallon less at the Shamrock Corner store on Research than the one at Austin Bluffs. Discovered this using the Android App on my Samsung Intercept smart phone. Later noticed that Shamrock gas prices are 3 cents less at Fillmore than at Austin Bluffs.
Rawlins
119981 Discover 14.311 gals @ $3.619 $51.79
9:30 PM. Camped all alone in the Eurovan near Pinedale at Fremont Lake. $6 to camp, half off for the Golden Age Passport. Checked out the Best Western in Pinedale. All they had dwas a deluxe suite @ $149, less 10% for AARP (Senior) then taxes back to $150. Eat in a restaurant, swim in pool if S-----, C-----, and J----- were along. Course we would not have gotten this far. I drove 12 hours almost. Camped near lake with wind blowing, some rain lightly, eating Top Ramen, chips, salsa, cheese.
7/18/2011 8:00 AM
Off from Fremont Lake and the mosquitoes and flies.
10:30 @ Alpine Jct.
120305 16.058 gals @ $3.849 for $61.81.
120452 at Arco 3:15 PM
3.64 gals $13.77 @ 3.779, too much back pressure to fill up.
Famed Idaho Author
Famed Idaho Author
River view from Idaho rest area.
The Idaho National Laboratory Lands
Approach to Mt Borah, Highest Point in Idaho
Old summit trail, now a deep rut.
Current entry point to summit trail, designed to keep out undesirables.
Currently no fee to camp.
The earthquake fault line, still visible after 28 years.
Mt Borah as viewed from further North has an imposing north face. Not visible or climbed as part of the normal route.
Irrigation ditch, still flowing. I camped near this feature on my first visit.
Adjacent mountains in the Lost River Range. Not as imposing as I recall from my first venture when covered in snow. It was Memorial Day weekend on a year long ago when I climbed Mt Borah.
Challis Hot Springs
Salmon River flows next to Challis Hot Springs
Lost River Range from Challis Hot Springs
July 19, 2011 2:00 PM
Challis Hot Springs
My personal travel journey in which are logged my life's sporadic activities as to suitable and notable events.
At Challis: 120543
119667
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876 miles in two days; S----- and C------ would not have enjoyed this trip, greater than three hundred miles and four hours of driving. It would have taken two nights rather than one to get here. Then the activities would be boring; for C------ and J-----, nothing to do. But S----- would come up with some restaurant or shopping, blah, blah.
As it is real mild and restful with the breeze blowing through the cotton wood trees - the dog yelping locked in an RV - all day continious. The small fox looking dog not on a leash barks.
Then I talked to a family of three on a month long road trip tenting in their Hondy Odyessa. From San Francisco to Canada, Calgary included. The boy's name was Alex, quite informed regarding cell phones and recommending METROPCS, just http://www.metro.com/ and enter your zip code. The best deal! The boy was entering the seventh grade next year in school. So this proves it can be done and families do long road trips. But not S-----. I tricked myself should be my reply to her saying "You tricked me." I also tricked C----- and myself (again).
Mt Borah had changed, modernization of trail head to preserve its character and give an early sagebrush start. The older access showed a deep eroded where the trail once went. "The Lost River Range" was the range I fantasized over their awesome summits; they didn't look as imposing without snow. Mt Borah shows an imposing north slope further up the valley.
How shall I return? Back the way I came and camp at Hoback? Easiest, quickest. Down to Nevada and I-80 across Great Salt Lake and then I-80 across Wyoming.
So this camping can be boring. Nap a couple of times, then? Read a book. Where in Idaho did William Least Heat Moon travel? Moscow, very north area passing into Montanna. The family from San Francisco mentioned going to Glacier National Monument and beyond to Calgary.
Last night I ate half of my steak and mushrooms with onions sauteed in red wind after the sun went down. It is now 5:45 PM, couple of more hours of sunshine remain. I'm hungry, or think it is time to eat, now.
7/20/2011
Off from Challis Hot Springs at 10:30 AM.
2:50 PM
Rexburg - $67.28 for 18.337 gallons of gas at $3.669 per gallon, but no mileage.
9:15 PM
Hoback Campground.
Been here about three hours, arrived at 6:15 PM. Pretty lush flowers, wet, mosquitoes. Wild flowers were/are incredible. Yellow, blue, white blossoms against an all green background of several greens all at once forming the matrix! Here's where I surrpetitiously, without paying the camp fee, cooked and ate a breakfast of bacon and bacon basted over easy eggs. A morning I recall, from what adventure I do not. (This was before camp hosts came into being - can you believe how long ago that must have been?
Another couple who befriended greyhounds and whippets - going where the whim takes them, he's been at it for five months, she for half that. Four dogs, two greyhounds and two whippets. One larger greyhound was a blondish red in color like a golden retriever.
7/21/2011
8:30 AM off from Hoback Camp Ground
120871 mileage
"If the white man had never came, everything would still be the same."
Inspired by Astorians story on historical marker.
Rock Springs 11:20 AM
121028 $40.70 for 11.437 gallons at $3.559 per gallon.
121437 on return to Colorado Springs at 7 PM. Spent one hour driving stop and go traffic to get though Denver from North to South on I-25.
Post trip note. Is it possible to avoid the I-25 traffic. The couple I chatted with at Hoback said they avoided the Interstates. Perhaps I could do the same if I decide to return to Idaho. Colorado Springs to Dillion to Steamboat Springs to Kemmering, etc appears feasible. More miles, more time, less hassle perhaps. I returned by way of Salmon, Idaho driving HWY 93 from Challis to Salmon and then HWY 28 to Rexburg and Victor taking Wilson Pass back to Jackson. There were lots of camping opportunities along these routes, camping by the rivers. I did not venture into Jackson, traffic all jammed up.
Rexburg was a pretty little Idaho town with a population of about 17,000. Home to BYU-Idaho, indicative of the large LDS population. The racial demographics list NSD for the black percentage. The residents are 95% LDS. The town's Walmart is not a Super Center. The grocery section was small, mostly dry goods with a section of refrigerated items in cases. No deli or bakery, etc.
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