DAM!
Dworshak Dam - 717feet high-- third tallest in the US -- and we thought Grand Coulee Dam was a big deal. (It was.--Grand Coulee boasts the most powerful.-- see blogpost of Oct.15, 2018)
We went for a day trip to Idaho at the recommendation of a work friend. He said Dworshak was taller and more scenic than Grand Coulee. He was right. We miss forests.We drove windy roads and felt our ears pop going up and down passes; we savored all the greenery. We stayed in Orofino and, as our truck was in for a tune-up( thus, no camper), we motel-ed at the Konkolville Motel. Whew! We got the last room. It was booked for the Idaho "Boombershoot!" http://www.boomershoot.org/ Apparently, the local rifle club gathers to blow up stuff by shooting at it. We saw a bunch of motel patrons unloading their gear ( i.e. guns) but we went out to dinner at "The River's Edge" Restaurant and didn't hear a peep or a shot. Had the hot tub to ourselves for happy hour (but sad to find it padlocked shut at 6am.)
The next morning, we drove the Scenic Elk River Backcountry Byway. WoW--yes, scenic. It looked like a cartoon "Happy Valley," with puffy, cotton-ball clouds hovering over a snake-y river through hills of forests. Driving back to Walla Walla, we remarked how the forests get fewer and fewer and the rolling hills of yellow striped mounds of emerging wheat fields looking yellow-er then brown-er is such a stark contrast.
We had a picnic lunch at the recreation reservoir, Deer Creek, that the dam has created where we saw fisherboys catching Tiger trout. Judd says they're the equivalent of Maine splake (the fish, not the guys,)-- hybrid trout that don't reproduce.
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| "Happy Valley" https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Happy_Valley |
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| Dent Bridge-- as beautiful as the Golden Gate (but smaller and glinting white in the sun over the Clearwater River) |
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