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25 Sept 2015

Less-travelled roads to heaven (part 2)


The Seven Devils mountain range, from where the technical top of the canyon is measured. We call it the Seven Satans because alliteration.


Never fear—this is not missing the first 2 pages. Those were part 1. Note the change from "hell" to "heaven". I really do love Moscow that much. Partly because it's great, but partly because of an irrational emotional bond with it which I have no desire to shake.



The "alien landing pad" of Hells Canyon.


The clouds cast lovely shadows.


Nearing sunset at the reservoir of Brownlee Dam.


White Bird



US-95 by White Bird



Sculpture at the Nez Perce County Courthouse (at Lewiston)


US-95 going north to Moscow. We went up this incline to the Palouse country using the modern 4 lane highway.


Moscow countryside (I regret not bringing my camera on the walk around downtown!)


Looking from the top down at Lewiston and the old two-lane road, which we took down the inline.



Grain storage along US-12


Overlooking the Snake River near Starbuck (no association with Starbucks!)


A railroad bridge over the Snake River.


Palouse Falls


This is a rough outline of our complete road trip. I pretty much ignored everything between Weiser and Cascade, yes. It's just that dull in comparison to what surrounds it!

23 Sept 2015

Less-travelled roads to hell (part 1)


Memorializing our previous failure of getting stuck on Hat Point Road.




View of the Wallowa Mountains from Joseph, OR



The pastoral Wallowa valley




The road to Hells Canyon



Hat Point Road




Just around this turn, the road passed on a very narrow strip of land with a steep fall on either side.


Imnaha River Valley from the Granny viewpoint.



Hat Point viewpoint shrouded in clouds.


Panorama of the view.


These trees would normally be evergreen, but the area suffered a bad fire in the late 1980s.



Imanha River


Upper Imnaha Road—Part 2, starting with once we left this road, is soon to come.

1 Jun 2013

The Story of an Adventure / Underwood with a £

1939 Underwood Leader E1272379







The keyboard is thoroughly nonstandard.



Size comparison with my SM3, it is not as deep.

Size comparison with my SM3, it is also narrower!

Typed adventuringly on my new Underwood Leader