Sunday, August 31, 2008

Fun times at Mackey, Idaho


We spent the weekend here in our home state of Idaho. It took us about 2 hours to travel to Mackey Resesrvoir where we set up our tent trailer. Seeing that I couldn't hike very well we planned on doing a lot of site seeing in the car. The city of Mackey offers a mine tour by vehicle so we headed to the hills just behind it. We found the tour so interesting and one of the pictures shows the old buildings that would transfer the copper and ore down the mountain. One the drive back to camp I noticed on the map Dickey Idaho and we were only about 5 miles from it! Of course we had to go to it. Turns out there are only about 2 houses left there but we did find a shed with the name Dickey on it. Note the picture. The mountains in the distance are of Dickey Peak and another picture of Mt Borah (the tallest peak in Idaho) and Dickey Peak beside it. The town is also in the distance but you can't see the two houses in it.

1 comment:

Laura said...

I would have done the same thing. In fact, I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to hike Mt. Dickey when I get a chance! Cool pics...