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"Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference"
Robert Frost
Mackay, Idaho downtown (pronounced mack-key)
Mt. McCaleb's beautiful south face towers over the little town of Mackay, Idaho. The domineering peak is seen from US-93 just waiting to be climbed.
Borah Peak, the highest point in Idaho is 20 miles to the north. A small restaurant in the center of town features great milkshakes. Nice place to stop if you are in the area.
Well, I had high expectations for the eclipse. It was much better than I expected.
I went to Idaho, in the center of the path of totality and watched day turn into night. I logged 21F temp drop, and it was magical. 360 degree sunrise, eerie calm feeling.
No wonder the ancient people made such a big deal out of this. Best experience ever, so glad i came down for it.
BNSF eastbound empty oil train, with units 7866 & 6252 as DPUs, crosses the long bridge across Lake Pend Oreille as it approaches Sandpoint, Idaho on May 25, 2016.
Engineers with the Idaho National Guard's 116th Brigade Engineer Battalion conduct M2A3 Bradley fighting vehicle gunnery qualification on March 27, 2018, at Orchard Combat Training Center, south of Boise, Idaho. Combat engineers with the 116th BEB trained through gunnery table XII, evaluating their ability to execute collective platoon-level tasks in a tactical live-fire environment; including integrating dismounted soldiers with their assigned BFV. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by 1LT Robert Barney)
grilled trout, mashed potatoes, a salad and apple pie.
alas, the pie wasn't as good as i would have liked.
...but i will admit, i am damn picky about apple pie. ;)
Driving Through Idaho somewhere near Grangeville. Many of these pictures show a hazy smoke in the sky from forest fires nearby.
Farnum is enough of a ghost town that we think even the ghost has moved away.
Nevertheless, my cousin still lives in Farnum, the fourth generation of Bratts there. I was born in California, but in 1946 my folks came back to Idaho and we lived in Farnum until 1955, when we moved to Drummond, taking our house with us.
Farnum was never all that big to begin with. Most of the community was made up of farmers and their families living on homesteads, with a few families living around the post office/store in both Lillian and Farnum. In 1930, the year-end report for the Farnum LDS Ward listed a membership of 173 persons, 45 of whom were children. I’m still looking for census records, but since most of the settlers were LDS, this is probably the best head count available for the community.
Earlier church records describe the ward as “a scattered settlement, extending up and down Fall River for a distance of fifteen miles, and from north to south it has a width of about ten miles. The center of the ward, where the LDS meeting house is located, is six miles southeast of Ashton, and about the same distance from Marysville. It is also eight miles northeast of Chester and eighteen miles by nearest road northeast of St. Anthony.”
In 1896, Willard Green and his wife, Rosamond Farnum Sprague Green, moved to Farnum, settling along Fall River. About 1904, his son Silas, his wife, and three children joined them. Silas built a store, which was made of finished lumber, with a tall square front painted white with a big general store sign on the front. The store sold a wide selection of articles needed by the residents in the rural area and also housed the post office, which remained open until 1921. Silas named the post office “Farnum” for his mother, and the name gradually became applied to the whole area.
This is another of the barns we photographed while exploring back roads in Southeast Idaho. This one is along the road through the Cub River valley, a very pretty drive.
Idaho's Initial Point is a volcanic butte rising from the western Snake River Plain. Beginning on April 19, 1867, surveyors mapped the entire state starting from this butte. Every piece of land in the state is referenced by its direction and distance from a brass survey marker located on top of the butte.