Yesterday we went to Pittsburg Landing. When you cross over the bridge that I showed in the last blog you find the road to Pittsburg Landing. From the bridge, it is 17 miles over a winding gravel road except for maybe the first 3 miles which is a blacktop road. You go up and then you go down on the other side of the mountains to the park that is run by, of all things, the Forestry Service. Pittsburg Landing is one of the few places on the Idaho side of the Snake River that you can get down to the River to launch a boat. The park was interesting but the getting there was better. We took my Jeep and I put it into 4 wheel drive low going down hill just to slowdown the descent and to save the brakes. This is a picture looking down on the road going into Pittsburg Landing.
The mountain at the back of the picture is in Washington. The Nez Perce Indians and their descendants were in the area as much as 12,000 years ago. We saw some petroglyphs that are suppose to date back about 2000 years.
This is where the river comes out of the canyon.
This is the launch site for boats. It is hard to imagine hauling a boat over the road we came in on, but there were several there.
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