Idaho's Stunning Magruder Corridor Wilderness Road

JEFFHEAD.COM ^ | 19-Aug-2007 | Jeff Head

[hosepipe]

Good pics, good eye for photogtaphy.. However me living in Alaska(the last frontier) am blessed with sights such as these (AND MORE) daily as I motor around during work..

In Alaska the Rockies are foothills the wilderness is wilder..
Every American should become a tourist to Alaska..

[Jeff Head]

Well, I was just running the standard 4-ply tires that came with the vehcile (my mistake there). Have since bought four much more aggressive tread, much stronger ply tires. The really rough ride up to Burnt Knob weakened the stock tires and then the road going up Salmon Mountain had a sharp rock poke on through.

[Jeff Head]

I've made two trips to Alaaska, the last I drove back down the AlCan and took the Cassiar cutoff at White Horse down through BC. That was a week long trip of this type of driving, though that gravel road was better off than the wilderness part of this road.

I have to say, for vistas and stunning scenery, this trip was the match for it...though the mountains are not nearly as high...and though up there a couple of hundred miles south of White Horse, you are much more remote.

[Lancey Howard]

Excellent post. Thanks for posting.
“America the Beautiful”, indeed.

[Jeff Head]

Thank you too my FRiend, and equally good to touch base. Things here are fine and I hope the same is true for you and yours.

This was a great trip.

[Jeff Head]

Jared and I have shared a lot of trips together...starting back to the March ofr LIberty when he was ten years old and before.

Sounds like a fun project on the Willys. You'll have a lot of fun taking such trips I know. This would be a good one for you if you could get out this way...but I am sure you will find plenty of places to exercise that rebuild...hehehe!

[Jeff Head]

Jared and I have shared a lot of trips together...starting back to the March for Liberty when he was ten years old and before.

Sounds like a fun project on the Willys. You'll have a lot of fun taking such trips I know. This would be a good one for you if you could get out this way...but I am sure you will find plenty of places to exercise that rebuild...hehehe!

[pandemoniumreigns]

Great pics Jeff...

(mine now...)

What's your camera?

[wku man]

I've hunted that area above Hwy 14 between Grangeville and Elk City. Absolutely spectacular and the deer are thick as fleas. I'd move there in a heartbeat if I had a way to earn a living there.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Killborn]

Beautiful place. Lucky you. :)

[Jeff Head]

Used two cameras on this trip. Both Kodak digitals.

One was the Kodak, dual lens, 10X optical zoom V610 (which took the nice hazy, smoky, and sunup pictures, as well as the wide angle pics that it stitched together autmoatically very nicely), and the other was another Kodak Digital 10X optical zoom DX6490.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Great post Jeff!

But ahh, you don’t want to see this great jeep road suffer gridlock do you?

Some things are better left unsaid.

But since we are all fellow Freepers here you are amoung friends. Just don’t go TOO PUBLIC with it.

[hosepipe]

[.. a couple of hundred miles south of White Horse, you are much more remote. ..]

Amazing how big this place is.. As big as most of the western United States.. I am constantly amazed.. You could live a lifetime here and not see it all.. Wyoming, Montana and Idaho are wonderful but just wet the hunger for wilderness.. We have National Parks as big as some States.. bigger really..

[redhead]

Thank you. When I worked for the State of Alaska, one of my jobs was to type up the EIS (Environmental Impact Statements) documents. I do remember that all motorized traffic inside the boundaries of designated Wilderness, as well as in the air above them. I’m glad you got to see that magnificence. Idaho is a beautiful state.

[Diver Dave]

Outstanding, Jeff and Jared. Beautiful pix you’ve presented on your site.

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks for the ping.

Absolutely beautiful. I expect the road was closed just waiting for your son to grow up so he could go with you. :-)

[Cindy]

Just beautiful and really special.

Thank you Jeff.

[taxed2death]

Wow. Thanks FRiend...amazing pics.

[EternalVigilance]

Awesome, Jeff! Thanks for sharing these wonderful pics and experiences.

[pandemoniumreigns]

I just went through the whole essay Jeff...

Absolutely beautiful...

I am so glad that you and your boy were able to take this trip and share it with us.

Thanks again...

(small tip...proof reader)...((;O)