After a long day of riding in the
heat a cold
beer in a beautiful landscape, like
here in the City of Rocks Idaho, is sooo
relaxing.
A lot of riders make fun of me for carrying a
small cooler on top of my panniers on trips - until
I pull out a cold beer ;-)
The City of Rocks isn't a huge
park, but is definitely worth
going to if you are in the area. Not
surprisingly it is popular with rock climbers.
The city of rocks has some interesting rock
formations, and also some old graffity
from the Oregon Trail.
The road is dirt and gravel but in good
condition.
We headed north again and the
scenery in most of southern Idaho is less
then impressive.
It was a really hot day, again, so
we decided that a ice cave was the perfect
tourist trap for us.
If you see a
Indian riding an dinosaur, you know it's a
quality tourist trap ;-)
These lava
caves are not far from Craters of the
Moon, but are actually from a different volcano.
Indeed, there
was ice in
the cave and we enjoyed the cool
temperature during the guided tour.
We rode through the oh-so-chic
town of Ketchum and Resort of Sun Valley, and
camped for free at a BLM
campground near Corral Creek. I joked
that after camping for free we could have a $50
breakfast in town, if they let us in with our
dirty gear - we didn't try.
