TaterTOT Rally, Kellogg, Idaho

 We arrived for the TaterTOT rally on Friday, June 22. We are camping at the Kampkonderosa Campground in Cataldo, Idaho. Our friends from Washington had already arrived, and our friends from Portland are just a couple hours behind us. We all arrived for the rally and to ride the Trail of the Coeur d’Alene.

 We got our camp all set up so that we would be ready to ride on Saturday. Saturday morning arrived with beautiful sunny weather, so we decided to ride from Cataldo to Wallace. We stopped at the host hotel in Kellogg to say hi to people, and then continued our ride. Since the silver mines closed, Wallace is a town that exists for the skiing trade in the winter and the mountain bikers in the summer. They also have more saloons and brewpubs per capita than any place we’re aware of. To commemorate the silver mining era they have a plaque at the edge of town that says “If it cannot be grown it must be mined”.

We had lunch there followed by the signature huckleberry shake and then headed back. Leslie stopped at the guest hotel to say hi to folks and install a few visors.

Overall mileage: 48. (Trail is 72 miles end to end)
Restrooms: in town
Surface: fully paved with mild incline.