Exploring the Idaho Panhandle, A Quick Trip North

As February neared its close, winter was starting to lose its grip on northern Idaho. The change was so quick that a lot of the fields we passed on the way north were covered with standing water, rivers were bank full and brown, and fields of winter wheat were starting to green up. It was finally time to escape our winter hibernation and get out on a trip somewhere, and we chose to go north for a couple days.

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Exploring the Lower Salmon River

The Lower Salmon is local for us. You just can't see it from the road - or the highway at least. It was an easy trip down to Lone Pine Bar outside of Cottonwood one fall morning. We found a nice campground, white sand beaches, salmon spawning in the gravel and chukars clucking on the hills. We didn't come home with a sample of the salmon or the chukar but it was good to find…

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