Monday August 20^th – We left Deer Lodge, MT this morning , we stopped several times even though it was only 200 miles to the border. The view one place, a huckleberry shake seemed like a good excuse for another stop and we got a bonus there with fresh Rainer cherries and some huckleberries.

We changed another time zone – now on Pacific time.

With all that we came over the border into Idaho at the peak of the Bitterroot Mountains and only 15 mile down the mountain we were at our campground that is very close to the  Coeur d’Alene bike trail. We set up camp, had some lunch and headed up the trail to an old town called

Wallace – a mix of restored and in need of restoration old buildings showed much progress since we visited on the way back from Alaska six years ago.

Some just had interesting signs…

We were happy to head down the trail on the way back because the wind had picked up a notch or two.

The fire of 1910 wiped out all but a couple buildings in Wallace after starting in Canada. Look at these stats: