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Beavertail Hill State Park, MT – Thursday May 18, 2017

Today’s drive
Across Northern Idaho into Montana. 
We are just east of Missoula for tonight and tomorrow. The forest service campground I wanted to stay in up in the mountains is not open. 

The camp host said they had 2-3 inches of snow here yesterday. They spent most of the morning picking up downed tree branches. 
We are a half mile south of I-90. This is real camping, we are under a large tree and can not get satellite radio or TV.  I could move the TV dish off the motor home but Jean said to skip it because the only show she watches tonight is on CBS and we wouldn’t get CBS any way.  Here Friday night and move to Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park for Saturday and Sunday. 

Tanya sent us a video of Jack taking his first steps today. 

Connors Pass, NM – Rest Stop by Hayspur Fish Hatchery, ID – April 9, 2017

Today’s drive.

Yes these pictures are very much the same.    They are both pictures of Harry driving on ICE and SNOW on the 9th of April.
This is one of the many passes on Hwy 50, we are just East of Ely, NV.

Driving up the pass their was a semi stopped in the road just before the top of the pass.  I was able to drive around him when I discovered the ice and snow on the road which stopped him.  The road is a 6 to 7% grade and I guess he was going so slow when he got to the ice he was unable to keep moving.

We were early enough to get a spot to stop.  This was a good time for breakfast and wait for the road to clear.   We got to the top at 8:00 a.m. and the first two sand truck came through at 8:10.  They several passes blading the ice and dumping a lot of salt and sand on the road.  By 9:00 the road was melted (about an inch of ice) and the Highway Patrol stopped to say the road was clear going east.

The plan was to spend the night at Hayspur Hatchery Campground, however the campground was closed.  It is a one lane road into the hatchery and campground and with the campground closed I only had limited options to turn around.  I needed up having to unhook the pickup to get turned around.

We ended at a rest stop just down the main road on the way to Sun Valley.

It was cold, 27 degrees in the morning.

Cathedral Gorge State Park, NV – Thursday April 6, 2017

Here is Jack’s 9 month picture. 

We did not get as far as we had planned. We were on Hwy 93 just north of I-15 when Richard called to say the wind was blowing in Sparks and peaking at 70 mph.  He was giving us a head’s up for the weekend, it usually takes one to two days for a weather front to get across the state.   We decided to pull into Cathedral Gorge, the campground is in a valley and a good place to set out a storm.  Will be here at least until Sunday. One of the park rangers said the weather should get here late Friday into Saturday.  Jean and I spent almost a week here several years ago setting out a rain storm. I’ll have to look that up in the logbook. It is the year I-15 washed out south of St. George. 

In site 13. 
By the way Hank loves the cooler temperatures.