Yellow Pine

tomorrow we go from Wetmore to Priest Hole

D, the Western Traveler

    As S said, "It was a nice leisurely departure from Silver Creek." The night was cold but the sun came up early and shone right in our front door. D had an early dip. We all had breakfast, ours was the classic, his kibble with tuna.

    We found Gooding to be the only town of consequence other than Boise, etc., so we rolled Ridley's for $64 worth of tomatoes, diet coke, salted caramel ice cream sandwiches, green onions, tonic, etc. D and S played in the park while composed and ate peanut butter, hot sauce, and tomato open faced sandwiches which I had been thinking fondly of since we ran out of the tomatoes we bought from the old foreigner one morning at Smokiam.

    We had a complicated engagement with 2 BLM camps near Unity, OR. The first, Wetmore Recreation Area was completely empty so we found a spot and took what the sign said was a nature trail to someplace called Yellow Pine a 1/2 mile walk through large tall Ponderosas. The trail led directly into another camp, called Yellow Pine which was sunnier and had a couple of neighbors widely spaced. So we walked back to the continued delight of D and drove around awhile and found the highway entrance to Yellow Pine and there we are now. In Oregon not Idaho. Pacific not Mountain time. I wasn't expecting either today but there was a small sign announcing both - nice.

These big, high, symmetric boles of the Ponderosa are very fetching both from a tree enthusiast's and a sawyer's point of view, which creates some cognitive dissonance.

Note:

We think Wetmore/Yellow Pine is off 26, while Silver Creek was off 20.