Finally joined an ATV club (Panhandle Riders ATV Club). While ATV riding itself is a blast, one major benefit over other options is being able to get to places too difficult for most people to hike, or mountain bike to.
Here are some shots from our first ride from Hope Idaho through the Cabinet Mountains to Char Falls.
Overlooking Lake Pend O'Reille (click to enlarge)
Cabinet Mountains (click to enlarge)
Char Falls (click to enlarge)
Char Falls (click to enlarge)
It’s becoming harder to observe when you’re assimilating into the fabric of small town living. The good news is that I noticed the tell-tail sign that this image in the local paper is from rural America. The bad news is that I recently played volleyball with my “hiking boots” on.
The image below is of a sign above a urinal in the Elks Club bathroom. The bathroom was empty so I got this sign to share with you. Kind of makes you wonder what the Elks membership demographic is.
Disclaimer: Yes, I do understand the perception of bringing a camera into a public bathroom. All those jokes have already passed through my head so don’t bother. No, I’m not a member of the Elks club. There’s only a few meetin’ houses in town, so many groups use the building.
Trimming the bushes – sounds like a chore my dad used to do on a day off. Here bushes grow like grass and cutting them off at the stump only gives them a solid foothold to come back next year. You have to pull them out by hand and get the roots or they’ll just come back. So trimming is taken to a whole new level of difficulty of clearing bushes. This requires special weedwacker attachments that go through 2 inch branches, chain saws, hand saws, clippers and a special ax (found only on ebay) called a grub ax that can (with a great deal of effort) pull small roots up. I did brush removal on a small section of land in spring and am now moving the bushes to the burn pile. Unlike the garbage bag dad would fill with trimmings, I had load after load of bushes. Only a few more sections to go.
