Today we are in Osburn, Idaho which is east of Coeur d'Alene. It is one of several tiny silver mining towns tucked in a narrow valley amidst towering mountains. The surrounding peaks are still snow-covered!! Temperatures hovered near 50 today and will be in the low 40s overnight with more snow for the mountains! The creeks and rivers are overflowing here with all of the rain and the snow melt.
We plan to stay here for a week in order to meet up this weekend with a friend from Seattle who will join us for a long weekend. There are two terrific bike trails--one along the valley floor (Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes) that runs along a river for about 73 miles and another 15 mile mountain bike route (Hiawatha Rail Trail) from the Montana border that runs along one of the most scenic stretches of old railroad with 10 tunnels and 7 high steel trestles. If it ever stops raining, I hope to have a chance to do some riding here.
We finally broke down and turned on the propane heater in the camper and while typing this, I just realized that our friends Nancy & Dick gave us a small electric heater as well. So...off I head to dig that out so we don't use all the propane :).
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