HIAWATHA TRAIL

TUESDAY

Got up and made cheese eggs and sandwich for hubby. Latte for hubby.

Then we got organized and ready to go on Hiawatha Trail. Hubby aired up tires on bikes & loaded bikes. I got the backpacks loaded & found the headlamps & helmets. We got changed ready for the bike ride.

Left the dogs at home.

We left the house at 9:30. Picked up a salad for me & sub sandwich for hubby at SUBWAY. Then we drove to Kellogg where we filled up with gasoline. I went potty in the gas station/quick mart, when I came out I remarked to a woman that was there with a huge dually & huge horse trailer. She was taking her two quarter horses to a show in Washington.

Continuing on our trip, we stopped at Lookout Pass Ski Area to pick up our passes. Then we drove a short way on gravel road to the East Portal where we park. We started biking at 11:00.

The Taft tunnel was not as wet nor cold this year as it has been in the past. Just a little misty.

At the beginning of the Hiawatha Trail

Lots of rude people that were riding 3 or 4 abreast and dumb people that would stop their bikes as soon as they exited a tunnel, or stopped IN THE TUNNEL!!! Hubby had to yell at one guy because he kept turning around in a tunnel and his headlamp was BLINDING US!!!

Little kids should not be allowed to ride this because it is over 17 miles and that is just TOO much for a little kid.

1/2 way along the trail just before one of the trestle tracks, we stopped to have lunch. We fed a couple little cute chipmunks that came over to us.

 Two cute chipmunks

We threw them nuts & bread

 They both came pretty close up to us

Almost at the bottom of the trail, we ran into a HUGE group of 30+ young people that were riding back up the trail and they were riding 3-4 abreast. They SAW us coming and did not move over. We had to end up yelling at them, and hubby almost was knocked off the trail by one stupid girl that would absolutely NOT move over. Very rude.

We were just in time for the Shuttle back up, only had to wait for 8 minutes before we loaded. Then at the top, nobody seemed to want to step up to collect their bikes from the bus driver when he unloaded them. So hubby stepped up and assisted in handing off the bikes to people. People are such DUMB SHEEP.

While riding thru the tunnel, another bunch of idiots. 2 couples were riding 2 abreast in the tunnel towards us; I had to shout at them several times until they finally got over. Dumb. dumb. dumb.

Hubby and I drove back west; then stopped in Smelterville to shop at the Walmart there.

We also stopped at Wendy's and walked inside to get 5 burgers for the dogs. Drove home on 95 North.

Unloaded groceries and watched TV for the balance of the night.