I found this picture on my phone and it turned out to be the best one I took showing what a drop it is from the high edge of the canyon that the road is perched on, all the way down to the river that presumably carved out the canyon, which the more I think about it geologically is really an oddity. This canyon should be much wider instead of the slot canyon that it is.
Regardless of the tectonic forces that made it, I find the Banks Lowman Road to be an amazing and accessible drive along a canyon edge unlike any other I have found in the US.
Summertime under a big blue Idaho sky. Four lives spinning together on river and ranch in the heart of flyover country. This is a novel on horseback with a woman riding the mountain trails of her ranching childhood. This is a novel in a raft, floating the remote Salmon river with a man trying to leave a past behind, looking for something better. It's a novel of wild places. It's a novel of family - coming home again!
Sunday, December 9, 2018
Driving a Canyon Edge from Lowman to Banks, ID
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