Trail of the Coeur d'Alene - Medimont to Enaville - 8/1/17

Trail of the Coeur d’Alene - Medimont to Enaville - 8/1/17

We’re off again … unfortunately, I drove to the trailhead where we left off yesterday, Medimont Trailhead.  I say, unfortunately, because that meant that we added an extra 10 miles to our travel making this another over 40 miles day.

The trail followed the Coeur d’Alene River with steeper canyon walls surrounding the river valley.  We rode through more of the Chain Lakes … smaller lakes and marshlands that fill the valleys between the mountain sides.  We scattered deer that went bounding off through the marshes … one deer was so startled that it fell on it’s haunches in a effort to get off the trail. As we were riding through.  The birds were so plentiful that it became nearly boring to see another great blue heron or osprey …

I did see a river otter peaking out from behind a mass of water lilies, but he won’t re-emerge for me to catch his picture.

Lunch today was in Enaville at The Snake Pit restaurant … the oldest continually operating restaurant in Idaho, since 1880.  The ambiance was great; the lunch left something to be desired.  Paul had a fantasy of fresh caught local salmon when he ordered his lunch of salmon and chips … alas, I think that he got something fresh out of the freezer and cooked drier than the dust … and, without chips … his fish and chips did not come with chips (he had taken a salad, but still thought that he’d get his chips … the waitress finally brought him some chips, but the magic, if there ever was any, was gone).
I guess that comes from eating at a place called The Snake Pit ...

We did manage to sight (with the help of a couple of other cyclists) a young moose grazing on some greenery at the river’s edge near Enaville, our turnaround point of the day.

The heat caught up with us on the ride back … and our sore butts were screaming … (yes, I had padded shorts, but my butt still complained) … and we had a headwind.  I think that this was one of those days on the “Tour of Idaho” where these two cyclists were battling the heat and our own bodies … time for a rest day.

Bambi agrees ...