[Vision2020] local summer activities

[Bill London]

Magruder Corridor Road....
what a great trip.  yes, I recommend it.
and do not forget to stop at Salmon Mountain and hike to the lookout at the
top (though a forest of alpine larch)
BL



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Warren Hayman" <whayman at adelphia.net>
To: "Debbie Gray" <dgray at uidaho.edu>
Cc: "Bill London" <london at moscow.com>; "vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] local summer activities


> 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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