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Monthly Archives: December 2016
Sandpoint to Dover Bike Ride
Sandpoint to Dover Bike Ride, June 30, 2013 Background Our research has shown that there are just 3 directions to which you can go, if you are heading out from the hotel on a bicycle: south 10kms (to Sagle), north … Continue reading
Sandpoint to Sagle Bike Ride
Sandpoint to Sagle Bike Ride, June 28, 2013 Background A year ago, Stephen discovered the nifty bike trail between downtown Sandpoint (really close to our hotel) and the small town of Sagle, almost 10 kms south. The niftiest part of … Continue reading
North Idaho Centennial Trail
North Idaho Centennial Trail at Coeur d’Alene June 26, 2013 Today was a travel day, going from Spokane to Sandpoint. The half-way part, roughly, was Coeur d’Alene. Stephen had expressed a great desire to bike the Centennial Trail from Liberty … Continue reading
Cataldo to Harrison Rail Trail
Harrison, Idaho, June 28, 2012 Today was slightly different. Stephen had found a neat – and lengthy – bike trail, running over an abandoned railway, somewhat east of Coeur d’Alene. Those rail trails are really nice, mainly because they don’t … Continue reading
Farragut State Park (near Sandpoint)
Farragut State Park, June 27, 2012 Today, we hiked one of many trails in the Farragut State Park. Here is a trail map from the Idaho Parks and Recreation site. Our target was a place called Buttonhook Bay, at the … Continue reading
Pend Oreille Bay Trail (Sandpoint)
Sandpoint, June 25, 2012 This morning, the weather didn’t look too amenable for hiking – overcast with lightning! So we spent some quality time at the indoor pool. After lunch, we decided on a trail that was a bit of … Continue reading
Round Lake (near Sandpoint)
Round Lake, June 24, 2012 In the morning, we decided to head out to a place called, not particularly imaginatively, Round Lake. As we were leaving the hotel at Sandpoint, we detected rain drops. So we went to the nearest … Continue reading
Sandpoint
Sandpoint, June 23, 2012 We arrived in Sandpoint, where the clouds threatened to rain, but did not. Our hotel is right by a beach area, so we decided to check out the pathway and then went downtown to check out … Continue reading
Cranbrook to Kimberley Rail Trail
Cranbrook-to-Kimberley Rail Trail – July 1, 2013 A year ago, while we were driving between Cranbrook and Kimberley, all of a sudden we noticed a bike path paralleling the highway. Stephen had talked about riding it – he knew that … Continue reading
Fernie River Walk and Maiden Lake
Fernie, June 22, 2012 While driving between Calgary, Alberta, and Sandpoint, Idaho, we generally spend a night or two in Fernie, British Columbia, to break up the drive a bit. On this occasion, we checked things out from the hotel … Continue reading