3/2/2024 0 Comments Dredge ponds yankee fork road![]() ![]() Dad quickly corrected me – I was looking at rising steam from a geothermal ‘hot spot’ rather than smoke from flames. I came around a corner at one point and saw smoke rising from the hillside ahead. Looming ahead of us was snow-capped Mount Heyburn at 10,229 feet.įollowing some hand-written notes from my grandpa, I knew we had just a bit longer to go until we’d be seeing a place called Sunbeam Dam along the roadside. We came up on a sign announcing the exit for Redfish Lake and I’d been highly recommended by my grandpa that we stop there, so I hit the brakes and headed left toward some campsites along the lakeside. The highway straightened out a bit when we got to lower elevations and I was able to set the cruise just momentarily at 65 or so. The next several miles, we looped back and forth across the switchbacks as dad eyeballed a few dozen antelope out on the mountainside. It became apparent when my ears popped that we were quickly going upward in elevation.Īt 8,701 feet, we crossed over the Galena Summit and a whole new view opened up to us as we started our way back down the backside in the Sawtooth Wilderness. The two laner was completely ours for the taking – it seemed we had beat the peak RV season and we were out early enough that there was little to no traffic. After a quick walk down the block to a log cabin Starbucks from the Tamarack Lodge for a light breakfast, we hit Highway 75 in the ILX and headed out of town. ![]() It was a picture-perfect morning in Ketchum, Idaho on Saturday morning: cloudless and sunny with just enough of a nip in the air to require a light jacket. Welcome back for Part 2 of this past weekend’s road trip! Part 1 is here. ![]()
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