Today was a travel day. Hated to leave McCall, but had to move on. On the way, we stopped by Eagle, Idaho (outside of Boise) to check out their BMX/mountain biking park. Very cool! If I can get a good wifi connection, I’ll post some photos.
That’s one complaint I do have about Idaho – I have yet to find a decent internet connection.
Ok, we’ll give it a shot. Here’s an overview of the left side of the park as you drive in:
These are all just mountain biking trails. Here’s a shot of the right side:
Still mostly MB trails. On the far right you can kind of see the BMX area, so here’s a smaller pano of that:
Not my thing, but I can appreciate how nice this would be for those who do care for it – that is one well-made track!
While in such a big parking lot, I took the opportunity for a couple of shots of Junior pulling The Beast:
And a sideways shot:
After this, we continued our trek down to Twin Falls, and got there early afternoon. Went in to town to check things out, get a few things, and discovered some really spectacular scenery! Ok, first of all, when you leave Boise and head East-SouthEast towards Twin Falls, you’d think you were driving through West Texas – fairly flat, very sandy scenery. I guess it’s very reminiscent of being outside of Amarillo, except there are really no trees here, just scrub brush … and then … all of a sudden … it’s like discovering Palo Duro State Park, that just drops down into gorgeous. Here, you get off I-84, head South on Idaho 93 to go into town, and as you go over the Perrine Bridge into town, the Snake river has cut a huge gorge and created this:
And coincidentally, this is very near the spot where, in 1974, Evel Knievel “tried” to jump the Grand Canyon. I’ll get a shot of that area tomorrow, maybe. This is Perrine Bridge, famous for a couple of things. First, when built it was the tallest bridge of its kind, at 486 feet above the river below, and second, it is the only bridge – in the U.S., at least – to allow BASE jumping year-round. There were some folks jumping today, and I kind of got them with the phone. If you click the photo, it should show you a much bigger one where you can actually see them:
You can see the first jumper just below the curve, at mid-bridge.
Here, you can see the first jumper in the shadow of the bridge, and the second where the first one was last shot.
And finally, you can see both jumpers in the shadow of the bridge, and their shadows on the river below. I’ll get back out here tomorrow with a real camera and hopefully someone will be jumping again. Evidently someone jumps pretty much every day. Kinda cool, but I’ll pass.