Hagerman, ID

As I said we really liked Hagerman, especially this time of year. The shade on a hot day is very nice, at least 10 degrees cooler. Read a lot and just enjoyed the pleasant temperatures as well as peace and quiet. Although the campground seemed to have decent turnover, it was mostly quiet older folks. Very few families, probably because they really didn’t have much for amenities, which suited us perfect. And school is back in session. And did I mention it was very cheap, which really suited us. So, we stayed a couple or three weeks.

And a couple of really special things happened while we were there. They had their annual car show. Just so happens this is a really nice car show and brings in folks from all around. Fancy cars are a thing in these deep winter snow zones. Nothing better to do than baby a car in the garage for 6 months a year. Notice Nellie finding her shady zone. The food trucks in attendance were good too.

We also visited the box canyon. During our travels there have been numerous box canyons but this is the first one that explained what a box canyon is. Not sure that this definition is applicable to all we have seen, but works for us. A box canyon is a canyon that only has one opening, with three sides of steep wall. Most were created via a massive catastrophic flooding event in our ancient history, not being cut over time by flowing water. Here is the source of this canyon, where a creek sometimes flows into it. It is mostly fed by the springs below.

The canyon runs probably a mile or a mile and a half to the Snake River. There was a (try at your own risk) trail to the canyon floor and several people were taking it, but we played it save and walked the upper trail. It was warm with no shade which Nellie was disappointed with, but very beautiful.

Riding along the Snake River on Hwy 30 you see lots of weeping waterfalls and several large ones as well. Here are some of the weeping walls, amazing that there is that much water freely flowing into the river, yet they have to turn off a waterfall because they need more water… Not sure that we really understand, but so it is.

And then the most amazing thing happened, we received a lemon pound cake all the way from NC compliments of Millie the best ever Ma. Since we got this special cake, someone had to have a birthday and since it was Randy’s birthday we celebrated. Many of you and our other loved ones helped to make the day more special by sending love and cards. Thank you all the calls, cards and general good love; it was much appreciated. Randy had a fantastic 60^th birthday!!!