Off to a Rocky Start

This morning (Tuesday) we packed up and started to head up the road for 60 miles into the Sawtooth Mountains. John had read that the Redfish Lake camping area was very popular and a nice place to camp and fish on the Salmon River. Our campground host, however, suggested that we stop at another lake because it was stocked with trout and would have better fishing. Once we got to Redfish though we decided that good fishing wasn’t a reason to go back to the other lake.

But first, we stopped at the dump station, then just as John pulls out onto the gravel road, the dark sun shade for our windshield falls down! I get a frantic phone call, because I’m following in the jeep and the walkie-talkie has died, telling me what happened. He very slowly proceeds to the ranger station parking lot where we spend the next hour trying to first fix the shade then giving up on that, cutting it off. John figured out how to keep the white shade attached and working. All we can do now is to go on with our plans and figure out what to do with the shade later, and hope it does not fall down since we would not have any shade for our big windshield.

View from our RV.

The drive up to Redfish Lake is beautiful! As we go over the pass and come down the mountain side the view of the Sawtooth mountains is spectacular! We could easily see how they got their name. Redfish Lake is a very popular area! All the signs for the campgrounds say they are full but we park the RV, retrieve our ‘Site Occupied’ sign and go looking for ourselves. Most of the first 4 campgrounds have reservable sites and they are almost all filled. The last campground is all walk-in sites and we were very lucky to snag a really nice site. The roads and RV pads are all paved, good picnic tables and grill stands, and a view of the lake with the mountains towering over it that is awesome!