Checking out
Hells Canyon-Saturday, May 11, 2013
We are up
early today as we want to go check out Hell’s Canyon before the hottest part of
the day. We drove back over to
Huntington and took off up Snake River Road.
The road turns to gravel just after the campground we had driven to
yesterday. Since it is the weekend there
are a ton of people out on the river in their boats. I guess this is an excellent place for cat
fishing. In fact there are signs all over announcing a cat fish derby for
Memorial weekend. I can only imagine how crowded this place is then. Jim is doing the driving today, as he always
does when we are in the jeep. He makes
me a little nervous now and then when I see him gawking out his side window
rather than out the windshield. I do
have to admit he has never once strayed off course while gawking. The view of
the river is amazing. For about 20 miles
the road winds along maybe fifty feet above the river before it climbs up to
the top of the hills that make up the sides of the canyon. With a name like
Hell’s Canyon I had expected the edges of the canyon to be more cliff like than
the rolling hills we are seeing. Out the road about fifteen or so miles we came
across a very tiny cemetery, I had to make Jim stop for picture taking and will
post the pictures on Find a Grave when I have wifi again. For those of you not
into Genealogy, “Find a Grave” is a web site for posting pictures of headstones
to help people locate graves of ancestors.
We got back
to the MH about 3:00 pm. There have been
some high clouds today and it didn’t get quit as hot as it was supposed to,
only 91 degrees today. We sat outside
for awhile after a lunch of cottage cheese and mandarin oranges. Thought we would be able to watch all the
little critters but they aren’t out running around today. Maybe the little
children that are camped next door are keeping them away. Yesterday we saw a bunny, squirrels, and some
type of little ground squirrel. They are
little tiny varmints that look a bit like a hamster, except they are a little
longer. I will have to look them up on-line when I have wifi.
For dinner
we shared a baked potato and a steak, cooked on our new little BBQ grill…Yummy! It’s cooling off much earlier tonight so I
think I will drag Jim out for a walk around the park.
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