Safe and responsible ATV riding is a great family adventure, and the roads and trails around Swiftwater RV Park in White Bird, Idaho offer spectacular trips, views and scenery. This photo was taken a few weeks ago on FS41 high up Doumecq Road with the awesome hills in the distance.
When you take an ATV trip, send us a picture and we'll share it! Email to swiftwaterrv@yahoo.com.
Other news in town is the ongoing photo contest at Canyon House Gifts & Lodging. They're planning to publish a coffeetable picture book next Fall and are accepting different themed photos each month. For December, the theme of photos to submit are Fall Colors, Thanksgiving and Hunting, so did through all those great photos taken during October and November of this year. Digital photos can be emailed to canyonhouse@frontier.com. December’s deadline is Sunday, December 20th.
Hope your Thanksgiving was bountiful and you spent an extra minute or two giving the kids a hug and sharing a smile with your loved ones.
Holiday Mail for Heroes program, which helps to “send a touch of home” to United States service members and veterans across the country and abroad, is in it's third year of operation. Access this web link http://www.redcross.org/holidaymail. Even if you don’t have access to the internet, your Holiday cards can still be mailed and addressed as follows: Holiday Mail for Heroes, PO Box 5456, Capitol Heights, MD 207914-5456 from Monday, November 2 through Monday, December 7. The cards will be collected through this unique P.O. Box, then screened for hazardous materials by Pitney Bowes, and distributed to participating Red Cross chapters nationwide. Once the cards arrive at the Red Cross chapters, they are sorted and reviewed by volunteers who then distribute them to service members, their families and veterans in communities across the country. A few easy tips are to sign all cards, entitle each card with a salutation such as ‘Dear Service Member, Family or Veteran”, and limit cards to 15 per person, or 50 for school class or business group, and bundle groups of cards in single, large envelopes, addressed to the PO box above.
Fishing is still going strong on the Salmon River here in White Bird, Idaho. A few storage guests are coming over to spend the night and toss their lines in the river, and there's open spaces too.
Weather is good...a bit of rain this past week, and a touch of snow...but not here on the Salmon River! Sunshine!
A tour of the White Bird Battlefield will take place this Saturday, November 14, at 10am PST. Plan to meet at the entrance to the Battlefield on Old Hwy 95, about two miles north of downtown. Kevin, from the Nez Perce National Park Service headquarters in Spalding, will be guiding the 1.5 hour walking tour, and is a fountain of information about the Nez Perce, and the White Bird Battlefield site. This is a rare opportunity to learn more about our area’s history, and so far, the weather looks to be good. It is advised to wear good walking shoes and bring water.
Costume events this past weekend were lots of fun at two different events in White Bird.Friday night - Oct 30 - at Canyon House during the wine tasting and sing-along by the bonfire, the best Witch prize went to Charlie ‘Chas’ Becktoll from Kooskia, and the best Non-Witch went to local Christy Brown, as Molly Mobster. Winner of the Gift Basket Raffle went to Dale Brege, from Grangeville, and it was nice to see he and Mimi at the event.As the past school teacher at the White Bird Elementary School before it closed, MImi misses her students and their families, so it was a treat for to be in town, and now they’ll be back to pick up their basket, which contains miscellaneous gifts and a gift certificate for one night in the lodging suite at Canyon House.
The other big costume party, on Halloween evening at the Silver Dollar Bar, featured plenty of very creative costumes.Winning first place was Larry, who owns the stables.He was ‘Bait’, outfitted to look like roe, with a big hook and line, attached to his girlfriend, who was dressed like a fish.Then, Rich Beckstead, as Barack Obama, placed 2nd, and 3rd place was a tie between Steve Kernutt as a doctor, and Polly Mozingo.
In case you're wondering about fishing...yep...those steelhead are still coming, with counts over Lower Granite Dam higher than normal. One guest said it was the best season so far in 15 years. Good fishing!
Just around the corner, on Sunday November 15, is the Annual Rebekkah’s Turkey Dinner, starting at noon at the IOOF in downtown White Bird.In addition to a fabulous home-cooked meal, the ladies have put together a great fundraiser by raffling off 3 quilts, sewn & created by local quilters, Kelly Rosenbaum, Laurie Bonwell and Sandy Lambert.Tickets are available from any Rebekkah member, and at the Turkey Dinner, after which the winning names will be drawn.
Cribbage games begins this Saturday the 7th in the afternoon at the Silver Dollar Bar in downtown White Bird. Call 839.2293 for more information.
Thanks for stopping by this online journal from Swiftwater RV Park on the banks of the Salmon River, in north central Idaho.
Our RV Park welcomes guests pulling trailers, 5th wheels, motor coaches, or folks and families ready to pitch their tent. Even your furry friends - on a leash - are welcome!
Free WiFi and 8 channels of TV can keep you in touch with the world outside of this rural bit of heaven. Starry nights, shady willow trees, and great fishing help build memorable vacations at Swiftwater RV Park. On top of that, we're only 17 miles from Hells Canyon and millions of acres of public lands.
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