Shortly after leaving the Clarkston WA/ Lewiston ID area, Route 12 followed the Clearwater River, aptly named. The river wound between mountains, and so did the road, of course, making for slow driving but beautiful scenery as we left the dry brown fields behind and got into forested area.
About a halfway across we entered Clearwater National Forest and for many miles there were few towns, but higher mountains and many rocky creeks. The road now followed the Lochwa River, another rocky, fast-running river, which looked like a postcard setting for people fly-fishing, and indeed we did pass quite a few people doing just that.
A long drive up took us over the top of Lolo Pass, over 5000 feet, and then we wound down again, crossing into Montana, into a new time zone, and toward Missoula.
Even with the time change, we arrived early enough to check into a KOA, do laundry, and have dinner. It was nice to have it stay light until almost 9:00 again.
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