From This Location , We Can See: 1) The Road South, 2) The Salmon River Canyon In the Distance To the West, 3) The Newer Road Descent Dow White Bird Hill, From the North, and 4) The "Little Narrow Thread of Green Surrounding the Town of White Bird ", Toward the Northeast.
“[The engine drags, backfiring a little, and down we go.] By the time our cycle has reached the bottom of wherever it is we are, we have dropped thousands of feet. I look back over my shoulder and see antlike cars way back at the top. Now we must head forward across this baking desert to wherever the road leads. [End Ch 24 and Start Ch 25.] .... The road has twisted and rolled over desert hills into a little, narrow thread of green surrounding the town of White Bird, then proceeded on to a big fast river, the Salmon, flowing between high canyon walls. Here the heat is tremendous and the glare from the white canyon rock is blinding. We wind on and on through the bottom of the narrow canyon, nervous about fast-moving traffic and oppressed by the fiery heat.“
One mile South of White Bird, ID.The Whole Mountain Side, Shown In the Center of This Panorama Is One of the Many Nez Perce National Historical Parks. This mountainside is the location of the Narrator's " what must be a hundred hairpin turns into a desert of broken land and crags." To see both the National Park area and the newer (& old roads) on a map click here: Detour in new browser frame for http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=45.7963&lon=-116.2675&datum=nad83 . Note: When you ask for a print you will see (both on screen and in print) the map nicely extended at top and bottom. Much more information about the new and old roads will be available.
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