Tunnel Vision

Nancy in the Taft Tunnel

On my last weekend (midweek) off, Nancy and I took a trip along the Hiawatha Trail on the Idaho/Montana border. We parked at the Adair trailhead (not recommended because the road is hell) about halfway on the trail and headed up hill through the Taft tunnel and then back down. If we would not have had dogs at home to worry about we would have done the entire route bottom to top. We still got in most of the trail, about 18 miles, half up hill and half down. The Taft tunnel (1.66 miles long) was wet and cold but we brought along plenty of extra clothing because it is still spring in the mountains. They had snow up there the night before. We met up with several people on the trail who were unprepared and I gave my rain coat to a woman who had her little son on the back of her bike. They each had a sweatshirt and nothing more. The poor tyke was freezing. As we were leaving a pretty cold storm blew in and drenched the place. During our trip through one of the tunnels we actually had to scare out three deer that were wandering through. We were all pretty freaked out by each other's presence. Here are some pictures from our outing. It was a lot of fun.

The Kathy and Nancy Show by the Taft Tunnel waterfall

Crazy chipmunk that tried to climb up my pants leg...Nancy ended up giving it a couple of almonds just for showmanship

One side of a trestle

Nancy at the beginning of the ride at the Adair trail head

A meadow along the road back to I-90. This is such a magical place.