Monday, July 3, 2017 found me heading north to White Bird ID to ride the jet boat through Hells Canyon in the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area. My journey began northbound on ID 55, the Payette River Scenic Byway – a road I had traversed in a southerly direction from Banks ID on Wednesday of the previous week and had intentionally omitted from my list of scenic drive options during my week in Boise ID. After the short drive to Banks, everything was “sight unseen.” For almost the entire drive on ID 55, I was accompanied by some variation of the (adjective) Salmon River, adjectives being Big, Little, Middle, South, etc. There were two long sloping up grades as well as the requisite accompanying down grades. The first three-quarters of the drive was saturated with both
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