2023 CDT - Day 4 - Leadore, ID.

A Calm day with plenty of storms

RVs $20, Tent sites $10, Showers $5 per person per shower. (Soon to be $35 for RVs)

Cereal, yogurt, blueberries, coffee. Beau and I out for our morning walk about the campground. There is only one other person here and they must be keeping to themselves. Beau enjoyed being chased a bit and then he found the ground squirrels. Finally someone for him to play with besides old me.

Shortly, the camp host came out and was moving the picnic benches on a small cart towed behind his lawn tractor over to his work area to try and repair them after the winter. Mark was a friendly guy who also doubled as a contractor, was a navy SeaBee, active in the community (when a town is this small I suppose everyone has to be active), and a proponent of improving the town. We chatted for quite a while about almost everything - except politics. He touched on it slightly by mentioning he was a conservative but I was going to get sucked into that conversation. This is a humble city RV Park next door to the rodeo arena. It does have real restrooms and hot showers. Until recently it had about twelve tent sites and room for about four RVs and no hookups. They received some funding from the city council and some attached land from a donor and added twelve more RV sites with power and water hookups for eight of those. They're on the map now.

Leadore new RV sites. You can see the construction work for utilities in the back.

The town (pronounced "Lead Ore") has a minimart/mini-grill/gas station/liquor store, a Catholic Church and a Later Day Saints church, one inn, two restaurants (breakfast, lunch, dinner, and bar) a post office, an elementary school, a machine shop, a private RV park (although the owner just died last Saturday while sitting in the bar so no one knows what will happen to the park), a Ranger Station, and an airport. No bakery! If there is anything else, they're hiding it.

Saint Josephs Catholic Church, Leadore, ID.

The General Store, Leadore, ID.

This morning the sun made a significant appearance and things warmed up pleasantly. Then the clouds moved in, the lightening flashed and thunder followed, and the rain came down. There were books to read, crosswords to do, and trailer manuals to read. When the sun came back out Beau and I went for an exploratory drive about town (five minutes) and took another walk. Then the storms came back again one after another. I can see the hills to the east and imagine Runningbird is experiencing much of the same only worse and colder. That being said, it doesn't appear to have slowed her down. She had her best mileage day so far. From what I can see, much of the hiking is along old Jeep trails and ranch roads. Muddy, mucky, slippery pathways. Not nice. Now I'm not out there obviously, but if I were, I would probably be spending a lot of time on my stern.