Jo Ann and Dave’s Place. Day 5 CDT.

Lime, Montana.

Around 8:00 Cheryl came to our camp and said that they were going into Lime and would meet us at the gas station at 9:30.

We showed up on time and after gassing up we drove east on Third Street. Third St becomes Lima Dam Rd.

Moose.

A few miles out of Lima we saw a Cow Moose dash across the road. When she got on the opposite side she turned and was very agitated.

As it turned out she had a calf back in the bushes and was trying to coax the calf to cross the road and join her.  Unfortunately there was a strong fence between them and the calf was to small
to jump the fence.

We stopped and turned off the engine and waited to see how this scene played out.
Mom went back and forth across the road trying to coax baby to follow her. She even went into the field on the right and ran along the fence.

Unfortunately baby couldn’t cross the fence it was behind and just ran along it trying to get to mama.

We watched for a while and then decided to move along and let them sort themselves out.

Lima Dam.

We drove several more miles through this beautiful valley.

Eventually we cam to Lima Dam.

Which impounds Lima Reservoir (how original). It is a very nice lake in beautiful country.

Antelope.

We were driving along through some ranch land when we saw a Pronghorn Antelope running across the landscape. It went several hundred yards, turned around and stopped to look back at what ever it was that spooked it in the first place. It was a perfect opportunity for Patti to get this picture.

We drove on along this good dirt road for several miles…

and came to Red Rock Lake

and eventually the Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge.

This is the refuge headquarters.

We stopped at the headquarters for a break.  Bob and I tried to find some water to fill a couple jugs but were unsuccessful.

Nice Views.

We continued along, through some spectacular scenery.

Entering Idaho.

After a while we crossed over the Divide and the Idaho/Montana State line. It has taken us four and a half to get through Montana.

Road Closed.

We were following this small dirt trail which is part of the CDT bike trail when we came to a locked gate.

We could see where the bikes went around the gate, but it was to narrow for us.
Okay, so we turn around and took another alternate route.

Wildflowers

Along this route we saw a lot of wild flowers.

This is a particularly nice picture of Fireweed.

Eventually we came to Ashton, Idaho.
This is a major landmark in Ashton.

Jo Ann and Dave.

We had all decided that when we got to Ashton we would take a the 50 mile detour to Idaho Falls to visit with with Jo Ann and Dave.
We got to J&D's around 5:30. They were happy to see us and offered us showers and a bed for the night. We were happy to accept.
In return, we took them out to supper at The North Highway Café.
The food is good and reasonably priced.

After supper we went back to J&D’s for some long hot showers and fun visiting.

I crashed around 10:00.