Monday Aug. 17
We left the “river of no return” in Salmon, ID and are now in the “Bitterroot” area of Hamilton, Montana.
We’re in a beautiful National Forest campground on Lake Como. We were pleasantly surprised to find we’ll have water and electricity. To get here we had to climb a curvy mountain to get to 7,264 feet and then slide down the other side. Not my favorite kind of road. Tomorrow we are going to climb the same mountain but will do it the hard way. We’ll be going up a gravel mountain road!!! Guess there is picture worthy scenery including 2 waterfalls. The goal is to an area that has epidot (green stuff). We’ll come back on the highway over the pass. Still not 100% sure I’m going. We’ll see if the lure of great scenery wins out………We went into Hamilton this afternoon and saw Steve’s home and workshop. He then took us to their rock club’s president’s house to see her stache. Jo has more rocks then any shop we have ever seen!! Her parents collected and she and her late husband collected for over 50 years! If anyone wants to buy rocks she is wanting to sell them and will sell cheaply. She has every size and kind imaginable. It was better then going to a museum!!………Still not sure where we are headed when we leave here.