New Roads New Places Day 3

211 miles today from McCall, ID to Lewiston, ID.  McCall is a prosperous looking little resort town in some beautiful country, but brags of having the highest snowfall of any city in Idaho......not my choice for winter living.  Here is a cute sculpture we saw in McCall:

The titlel of the sculpture is "Bearing Wall". 

Did your mother ever tell you "don't just sit there like a bump on a log"?  Well, here it is:

Bump on a Log

Riding up hwy 95 towards Lewiston, we came upon the neatest road except for one flaw.....nearly invisible gravel in the turns.  It was old hwy 95, and it has only "intermittant maintainence"  What I think is happening is the pavement is just deteriorating so the "gravel" is just bits of pavement on the surface.  At any rate, the first turn resulted in a major slip that startled both of us and from then on I was paranoid.  Here are some shots of the Zumo screen on that road:

It was like an European alpine pass road.

Later on, while riding my motorcycle along the Salmon river, we came upon these rafters and I thought to myself, why would anyone do something so dangerous?

You just can't go through Lewiston, Idaho wihout riding the Spiral Highway. 

Here is a video I made on the way down it:

What is really shameful about this video is that it shows the dork riding the motorcycle made the novice mistake of leaving his turn signal on.  Oh well, pass it off as too much excitement to notice.

We got to the motel fairly early and did a long walk along the Clearwater river on a bicycle trail:

It also had some fitness equipment along the way so I got some upper body workout:

We saw a thermometer in town that showed it was 95 degrees.  The end of day cold beer was really welcomed.