We had a lot of rain today so I didn't stop for too many pictures.

These three bucks caught my eye, especially this one who seems intent on doing his business.

This little guy was hanging out with the big guys hoping to learn something.

Finally done

I'll just walk out of here and no one will notice

Cute kids trying to get some business for dad's carlot.

They liked having their picture taken.

We sure saw a lot of different wildlife today

Flathead Lake, MT

All of the lakes up here are full

I borrowed this and the next pic from Tim's camera. That's my bike all loaded up.

Might as well stretch my legs as long as we have to wait. It didn't work, I was still the same height.

Hey Hailey, look where I am!

I wonder why they call them the Sawtooth Mountains

A little cool up here, but invigorating!

Tim cruising by.

I think he wants to be seen.

He is at about 1300 miles ridden in the last 15 hours.

These pronghorns were pretty curious about us.

They never took their eyes off of me.

They were intent on showing me their best side.

We stopped for lunch here in l
Lower Stanley

I think Cat's older sister works here.

They had a lot of beautiful antiques throughout the restaurant

A great view in both directions

Tim with his back to the view in the other direction.

A nice setting

My low carb lunch consisted of a burger patti with a portabella mushroom covering the top. Very good.

Tim had the bacon burger. Looks like real bacon!

This ones for Skid

Sharp bend in the Salmon River

This was a hydroelectric dam to power the mine.

I guess even cheap power doesn't guarantee success.

I figured out where they came up with those QR codes.

Pretty cool

What is a road trip without road construction?

This one was only a thirty minute delay.

At least it was a pleasant place to wait.

Slow day today. The desert was pretty boring in northern NV until I crested a rise and saw this Mountain Range. It is called the Ruby Range.

Tim finally left (3 days late) and rode straight through to Twin Falls, ID where I had spent the night (with no internet)! How did we ever manage before. My GPS went out yesterday so I replaced it with a cheapie. I taped it on no less. Part of my goal to rat bike this Beemer. :)  I'm not sure how far we will make it today as Tim is pretty tired. I'm letting him sleep in my room until check out and then we will let him complete his undocumented IB (iron butt, 1000miles in 24hr.).

I had read some literature in my room about Cathedral Gorge being 15 miles north of Caliente. It is a fee state park and I am just too cheap to pay if I plan on only being there a few minutes. 

However, just a couple of more miles up the road was Millers Viewpoint.

It was free, just like me! :)

Pretty amazing to see fields and then all of a sudden this gorge right in the middle of them.

I sometimes wonder how many people drive by these awesome spots because they just don't have a minute.

While I was there, the only thing this guy took a picture of was the gazebo looking thing. He did take a lot of them too.

I didn't see any place in Caliente that I wanted to have breakfast so I headed to Pioche.

It is an old mining town with a lot of history. Mostly silver, but no longer any active mines.

So everything gets turned into antique stores or tourist traps and they just try to hang on.

I had a good breakfast here, but even this cafe is for sale.

Low carb! :)

I'm heading towards the Great Basin NP, but it is still 100 miles away.

If I were a crow, it would only be 35 miles away.

After I was inside the park, I took the scenic drive to the top. 

Maybe not the top, but well over 10,000'

Pretty early still as some varieties of tree haven't started to leaf out.

They still have a beauty all their own.

Nevada is mostly an arid desert. Up here the trees are stunted. In Alaska I expect to see the same thing but not due to the same reasons.

There were still a lot of snow patches, this one was at the 10,000' level.

It is called Wheelers Peak and it was hard to get a clear shot of it.

The clouds made it hard to see.

so you know I didn't make it up.

They had several nice viewing platforms to see the clouds from.

It started raining pretty hard so I took a tour of Lehman Cave

When it was privately owned you had to be able to crawl through that opening if you wanted to tour the cave.

When the national parks took over, they made a new entrance.

If you look near the top of this picture you can see a little light shining through the original natural entrance of the cave.

This cave has just about every conceivable formations that are found in caves. 

The pictures look better when I turned off the flash.

The cave has a lot of large rooms.

If you look at the bottom you can see it was broken off. When it was privately owned their motto was if you can break it, you can take it. One of the draws to get people into the place.

Bristlecone Pine Tree, Native to only here,.

This slab was cut from a living tree in 1964. It was 4900 years old and still living when they cut it down.