[Vision2020] local summer activities

[Warren Hayman]

Hello Debbie et al,

Thanks for the post idea, and sorry I missed the offlist responses. As 
far as other books go, I think Rich Landers, the outdoor editor of the 
Spokesman-Review edited a "100 Hikes within 100 miles" of Spokane type 
of book which may be at Bookpeople. Cort Conley may have done a similar 
thing for Idaho.

Two places we enjoy are canoeing up to upper Priest Lake (haven't done 
it in a couple of years now, though) and camping or cabining it 
anywhere along 12 from Wilderness Gateway to the Lochsa Lodge. The 
lodge has fun cabins for pretty cheap, really, and dogs are OK. The 
stretch allows for all of the woods activities associated along with 
hot springs ranging from an easy walk in to difficult (especially with 
kids).

A fun day trip we've done with neighbors is the lake biking trail at 
the southern end of Lake CdA. We do a two-car thing and start at the 
trailhead in Plummer. From there to the lake is a beautiful 7.5 mile 
downhill ride, and with two cars there's no need to ride back up. The 
rest of the trail is as flat as the lake itself, of course, and Heyburn 
is right there, and the great trestle bridge across the lake as well. 
Or start at Harrison. The owner of the bike shop there, John Colby, is 
one of the founding members of the Fabulous Kingpins, and is thusly 
amenable to Muscovites.

One weekend-ish trip we keep planning and haven't done yet is the 
Magruder Corridor. Has anyone done it? For us, it seems that each time 
our family constellations align for time off together, the road is 
either frozen or on fire. We were thinking of a two or three nighter, 
along the possibilities of maybe one night in Elk City, one night 
midway through (I think there's an FS cabin halfway on the road, and a 
final night at say the Lochsa Lodge. Advice or recommendations, anyone?

Warren Hayman

On Wednesday, May 24, 2006, at 02:35 PM, Debbie Gray wrote:

> Thanks to Bill and everyone else who've responded on and off
> list to my post. There seem to be quite a few printed resources
> out there for me to further explore, I was also just interested
> in what places people on Vision2020 have visited or think of as
> favorites. Kind of a real world interactive guide... so if you
> are interested, maybe just throw out an interesting place off
> the beaten track that you/your family have enjoyed.
>
> Thanks for your example of Mann Lake, I look forward to reading
> about that.
>
> Debbie
>
> Bill London Wrote....
>> My Daily News travel column (second Saturday every month) includes
>> destinations outside of Latah County, for example Mann Lake (in May).
>>
>> There are an incredible number of great family destinations in this 
>> region,
>> most free and usually unpopulated.
>> BL
>
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