#14 and #15. I always do some fall time camping with the motorcycles and I realized I hadn't tented with the 750 since the Delores River gathering 7 years ago. So left on a over-nighter Friday evening up SH21 to Lowman and beyond.
I got started a little late so the sun was setting as I found a spot to set up camp above Lowman.
This stump made a convenient camp table. That is not a bag of vomit, but rather spaghetti and meat sauce from an MRE.
Woke up the next morning to 38 degrees, so no frost. The area between Idaho City and Lowman has been hit with fires many times. When I first rode on this road over 30 years ago, it was all trees except for a few spots. Now there are more burned trees than not. All part of natures plan, burn, then start again. It would be all burned off if it wasn't for people meddling with things. There are still active fires going, so it was hazy. A big smoke plume can be seen in the distance in the first photo.
An area recovering from an old fire.
I took some dirt side roads to see if there was some color to be found. Fall colors around here lean to yellow side of the spectrum.
I rode up to Sourdough Lodge for breakfast. It tuned out I was a few minutes late for breakfast because I dawdled too much stopping for photos, so I settled for a cheeseburger and fries. Got some OJ though.
Feeling too full after the meal, I rode back to Lowman and turned onto the Banks-Lowman highway. This road is quite the road, both for its scenery and for being very twisty on the eastern half. Very fun but rockfalls make things interesting in the blind curves. The pavement is pocked with dents from boulders. Plenty of burn scars along here, too.
This modest building is the old Danskin Station restaurant that specialized in fancy food. The restaurant that nationally known through word of mouth at one time. The chef was a gal that was somewhat famous, and the restaurant was frequented by hollywood types and assorted rich people. Eric Clapton ate there. Long closed now.
Big change in the weather coming by mid-week, but I'll try to get another camping trip done, probably in the desert next.