A vacation from our vacation -- part 3

On our last morning with Jess and David at their home in Ketchum, we went for a short bike ride. I fell in a stream. Then Rosie and I drove to Bozeman via the scenic route to see my cousin Liz, and Rosie's cousin Jack.

 One of Jess and David's neighbors has goats.

David on his way up.

After saying goodbye to our Jess and David, it was NE out of town over Trail Creek pass. 

Almost the whole 7 hour drive from Ketchum to Bozeman qualifies as "the middle of nowhere", the way we went. We were in national forest land most of it. Spent 20 miles on dirt right out of Ketchum.

This mountain is made of sand.

A "water" shot for Dad.

The high mountain on the left is Borah Peak, highest in ID.

Merged with US-93 headed N, joining up with the Salmon River through some canyony stuff.

A few heavily irrigated and/or fertilized fields along the river, bright green against the sage landscape.

We went over Lost Trail Pass/Chief Joseph Pass (and by Lost Trail Powder Mountain) and down into the Big Hole valley. Went past Big Hole National Battlefield, where in 1877 the Nez Perce tribe, moving away from previous attacks from ID, was assaulted before dawn by the US Army. Roughly 100 people were killed, largely non-combatants. A pitched battle followed and a few dozen US soldiers were killed.

Into Butte, MT. Bug smears on the windshield included for scale.