Monday
Our route today takes us East, away from the Bitterroot Mountains, over three passes to a town called Dillon. The three passes prove not to be too arduous, but provide many wonderful views of the the surrounding areas. For every high pass there are also valleys (deep), the first is the Big Hole River Valley, The Big Hole River is a headwater for the Jefferson River (we camped b the Jefferson River on the last trip at Lewis and Clark Caverns SP).
Along this road is the Big Hole Battleground, which is now a cemetery, preserved as part of the Nez Perce Trail National Park. The battle which took place here was not pleasant (see our Nez Perce Page). Here we found another piece of the puzzle that was the long flight in 1877 of the Nez Perce Indians, under Chief Joseph. Although the weather was beautiful the story here cast a somberness on the landscape. Even the appearance of Prong Horn Antelope could not lift that. While we were here we had lunch with Roy and Anne before moving on to Dillon, across the Big Hole Pas and The Badger Pass.
While climbing the Big Hole Pass we overtook a chap pushing, of all things a penny farthing bike, he presented a fairly strange picture, further enhanced by his pith helmet and small union jack. Yes he is English. Yes he is cycling across America on a penny farthing (though I am sure he is pushing it further than he is riding it). As it was not a good place to stop we did not stop, however Roy and Anne did and took a photo, which I have copied onto our photo gallery.
We duly arrived in Dillon at the Courtyside RV Park where we stayed for two nights, enabling us to catch up on laundry.
No comments:
Post a Comment