Hiawatha Bike TripJun 20, 2008
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| After getting the motorhome up and running we crossed back through Idaho and stopped at Lookout Mountain which in the winter is a ski area, but come spring/summer has a hiking/biking tour that goes for 12 miles but at a very gentle grade downhill(2%). One of the "attractions" of this route is that you bike through 7 or 8 tunnels of various lengths. Before you start (and when you pay your fee) they make sure you have a flashlight or headlamp before you start the course. And good thing!! At the very beginning of this trip you enter the longest of the tunnels....1.7 miles!!!!!!!!!!And let me tell you.....it is DARK!!! Jim had a headlamp so whenever he turned his head he could see whichever way he turned....me on the other hand had a flashlight stuck to my front bike rack so it only flashed straight ahead...and to be truthful, it wasn't the brightest bulb on the block!!! But, phew!!, made it. The trip was really pretty though and once down you are picked up by a bus and brought up to ...............that Darn tunnel again...this time going in the opposite direction to wind up at the beginning where the car was!!!! But it was fun and great views. We went another 30 miles up the road to a campground in St Regis, MT. We only stayed one nite, eager to get up to Flathead Lake, just south of Glacier National Park. |
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