Today, July 30, we drove to Ponderay, Idaho, then continued six miles up a freshly paved, very steep mountain road with numerous switchbacks and several hairpin curves to the Schweitzer Mountain Ski Resort.
There we found a very beautiful resort near the top of the mountain in a natural amphitheater with a nice ski resort village at the base of the slopes where we found the trailhead to the hiking trail leading to the top (two and a half miles up with a 1,800 ft vertical rise).
The views from the trail were just breathtaking and we met a few hardy souls that were climbing to the top or descending to the bottom of the trail from the top. There was a chairlift we could have paid for to the top, and some people did, but we chose to hike to the top ourselves.
Up and up we went and the temperature was going up too (89 in the shade). Here's Dad leading the way up the steep trail.
Near the top, we stopped to take some pictures. Dad says the top of the mountain is a great place to put cell phone towers. Apparently, the cell phone companies agreed and built some on the next mountain top over. If you look closely you can just see them at the top.
Tomorrow we are going to walk on a bridge over Lake Pend Oreille that is nearly two miles long (it is called "the Long Bridge")😊.
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