A few days later after studying the map we drove up to Blue Lake. We headed north on hwy 55, west on FR (forest service road) 17A, left on FR 446 and west on Snow Bank Mountain RD (isn't that a great name for a mtn rd) to Blue Lake.
Beautiful alpine lake about 7500' elevation. There is an easy trail down to the lake and the wildflowers were stunning and surprisingly prolific for August. Trout were rising but I didn't have my Idaho resident fishing license yet.
We really enjoy looking for and ID'ing wildflowers and Idaho has the most beautiful and varied we have ever seen.
After we hiked into the lake we drove further and had a great picnic lunch overlooking a huge high mountain pasture maybe 3 miles across. Couple of small creeks meandering through gave us a fantastic lunch backdrop. We drove on up toward the peak of Snowbank mountain and saw a bunch of dust.
This great big ass UFO landed. No one got out so we left.
