Idaho 2017, Part 1
With the end of fire season and cool weather in the forecast it was time to hit the road for a week off. Off to the high country of Idaho. Your vision of Idaho may be from I-84 passing through the southern part of the state. If so you may equate Idaho with a weedy wasteland of dairy cows and junk cars. And that is what is it. Trust me. Disregard the rest of this post and stay home.
We were Stanley bound, but we decided to take a day getting there and made our way up into the Payette River country and stayed overnight on the way. The river, mountains and forests were beautiful and call for a visit of their own.
We enjoyed an evening around the fire and were up the next day for the short drive the rest of the way to Stanley Lake.
The inlet campground at Stanley Lake is about how I left it last time I was there, which seems like quite a few years back. There’s a few less trees, and a few more dead ones, and the infrastructure is wearing out without much maintenance, but the mountains and lake don’t change. Beautiful as ever.
There are lots of memories at this lake. It is always good to be back.
