In a Picture Perfect Grassy Plateau, Our View Is Marred With a Double Dose of Electric Power Poles!

….[ “Near the top …. of a dry, meadowy plateau. “] “The road rolls and bumps and rocks so much I have to keep the speed down to fifty. There are some bad chuckholes in the asphalt and I watch carefully for more. .. We’re really accustomed to making mileage. Stretches that would have seemed long back in the Dakotas now seem short and easy. Being on the machine seems more natural than being off it. We’re nowhere that I’m familiar with, in country that I’ve never seen before, yet I don’t feel a stranger in it.” (Cont. Next)

Three miles East of Grangeville, ID. This high plateau probably owes its existence to a “cap” of tough volcanic rock (ancient lava) that has relatively greater resistance to being worn down by some sixteen million years of weathering.

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(Photo = 110-1101c ...... ZMM Page = 259 ...... WayPt = 277x 3446ft)