Previous entry: "June 22, 2007 Pomeroy, WA to Lenore, ID" | Next entry: "Not so Lolo" 07/17/2007 Entry: "June 23, 2007 Lowell, ID" Got a pretty early start out of Lenore. It helped that the night was fairly warm. I awoke as light began to peak up over the horizon. We had an early stop in Orofino, where we restocked on food. The landscape changed a lot throughout the day, gradually becoming more and more green. We started off the day with gold-green hills dotted with evergreens, and by the end of the day the mountains were covered in coniferous forest. The scenery was beautiful and so was the river. Did quite a bit more climbing today...for the most part, especially earlier in the day, the road looked flat, but the signs we saw indicated that we were gaining altitude. There are many nice sandy beaches and rapids on the river we followed...I don't know what it was to begin with, but it turned into the Lochsa River. I think it was the Clearwater for awhile. The weather was sunny, but definitely cooler than in the desert. There are a lot of small towns with friendly people. We rode up to Lowell, and found a place to camp by the motel. Lowell is really just a campsite, a general store, a restaurant, and a motel. Even though we had no cell phone reception, when Ariel met back up with us after dark she was able to find us quite quickly. Ariel came up in the evening with Carol, Anne, and Steve, bringing a feast from Grandpa Bill's last party. There was all sorts of delicious food, including several types of cookies, cakes, fruit salad, barbecue beef, egg salad, jello mold, sausages and potatoes, etc. Unfortunately, Carol, Anne, and Steve couldn't stay and left after only a little bit. Anne left me with this luxurious REI thermarest-type camping pad, which packs up quite small, even smaller than the yoga mat that Tim and Kate gave me in Astoria, so I sent the yoga mat back, and have felt like I'm sleeping in a hotel every night since. This is evidence that Anne is a fairy godmother and aunt wrapped up in one wonderful person! I hear she likes to make wedding cakes, too...

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