June 15

Doug Gardner,White Bird to Lowell, a ride noteworthy for the immediate climb out of there....switchback after switchback and a heck of a climb. The ride was marked with history about battles that occurred with the Nez Perce Indians and the calvary. We topped the pass to encounter a young lady that had just lost control and wrecked her car on the pass. She was visibly shaken, totaled her car, but was not hurt. We traveled on through Kooskia, which was an internment camp for the Japanese in WW II. We reached Lowell and stayed at 3 Rivers Campground at the confluence of the Selway, and Lochsa, and Clearwater Rivers. We ate at their restaurant, then jumped in their pool and hot tub. The keeper let us sleep on the porch of some unused cabins. I saw a Bald Eagle, a doe with her fawn, a hawk with a snake in its talons, and we saw a second wreck, an 18 wheeler with a lumber load that turned over on a switchback. Slept well that night.
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