While I was at Priest River cooking for trail crew John parked the bus on Priest Lake. I joined him after the trail crew for a week on the lake. We went to the lake last year after the trail crew for two weeks. It is a beautiful area with clear water lakes and old growth forests.
John in the lake, the lake
the bus parked in the campground. John looking out over the upper lake.
We kayaked up the channel between the lower Priest Lake the upper. The channel is called the Thorofare. It is a couple miles long of flat water. Really pretty. The upper lake has no development on it. It is just wild country.
John on the Thorofare and some ducks
a wild iris, John on Upper Priest Lake
Suep on the Thorofare, On the way back we went up a tributary called Caribou Creek, John on Caribou creek
tree roots and their reflection and John - The water is so calm and clear here that John appears to be floating
two more shots of Caribou creek
John, my hero hauling both of our boats back up the canoe portage to the parking lot, rain on Priest Lake
We had a rainy day. We walked to Hills resort down the beach and had a drink, then I wanted to walk home in the rain, it was a downpour and we got soaked. John went against his will into the rain. . . We picked Huckleberries, by the end of our stay I think we had picked a gallon of them. We had huckleberry pancakes, huckleberry cake, huckleberry strudel and huckleberry cobbler and still have over a quart of them in the freezer.
rain again, and huckleberries
We hiked to Hunt lake, on the east side of the lake. A one and a half hour ride up a bad dirt road, an hour hike up a 600 feet elevation gain in a boulder field with rocks that were waist high to a beautiful alpine lake in the Selkirks. and then back.
A poster seen at Priest Lake, a tanager on the hike
Hunt Lake, John at Hunt Lake
reflections in Hunt lake and the hike back in the waist high rocks
Flowers etc. seen on the hike
The view of Priest Lake from the trail head, the bus is parked on the opposite side of the lake. A peak seen on the hike.
and John resting when we returned. My birthday I swam in the lake.
relaxed in my lawn chair and John took me out to dinner at Hills resort
the next day we hiked 6 miles round trip, with very little elevation gain this time to Upper Priest Lake and back, John on the trail. A new shrub I have never seen, Devils club.
chimney rock over the lake, Huckleberry Cobbler and huckleberry crisp.
sunset on the lake our last night there
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