July 15 2011 Wallace Idaho

We left Missoula and stayed in Wallace Idaho. We are on our way to Hayden Lake to shop for food for the smokejumper crew I cooked on. 60 years ago or so my father built a cabin on Hayden Lake. Wallace is a mining town and was almost destroyed in the 1910 fires that burned millions of acres of forest in Idaho, Washington and Montana. Ed Pulaski saved 40 men by taking them into a mine shaft and held them there at gunpoint until the fire past. We hiked up to the tunnel. Wallace is like stepping back in time, old Victorian houses and shops. John found an RV park that was a combo RV park and brew pub. He couldn’t pass that up.

a UFO on main street, the start of the Pulaski trail

a waterfall on the trail , a wanted poster for fire fighters

  a burnt stump from the fire- it was an old growth forest with HUGE trees, and the Pulaski tunnel

 

wild flowers seen on the trail, pyrolia, senicio, orange honey suckle, alum root, cow parsnip, twin flower

pink pyrolia, twin berry, a purple and blue penstemen

Rv park and brewpub in Wallace. We stayed on Lake Pend Oreille when we shopped in Hayden. This is house built on the lake.

60 years ago or so my father built a cabin on Hayden Lake. We went looking for the lot. This is what we found when we got there

There were about 5 houses where I think our cabin was, this is a poster at Hayden Lake

Hayden  lake