Not far North of City of Rocks, I did some hikes in the Independance Mountains.
 
 
1. Green pasture.
 

 
 
2. Going up in the mountains, I find the tender green of young leaves again.
 

 
 
3. Snowmelt floods forest roads that borrows VivaLaVida.
 

 
 
4. Color contrasts…
 

 
 
5. The first flowers only appear at this elevation.
 

 
 
6. Bells.
 

 
 
7. Grazing light…
 

 
 
8. A Moose going only hundred yards away.
 

 
 
9. Sunset.
 

 
 
10. Last colors before the night.
 

 
 
11. Early the next day, I went to Independence Lakes, probably the most scorching hike I’ve done since I travel in VLV. 7 hours hike in deep snow, just backbreaking…
 

 
 
12. Back to VLV, I was resting when without warning, this young moose came out of the forest only a few yards. Excitement for both! 😉
 

 
 
13. He walks away, looking at me from time to time.
 

 
 
14. Crossing Okleay.
 

 
 
15. I then continued the road to the north through Boise. In this Memorial Day, I went to see the mountains nearby and the Boise River. Here, a reservoir on the Boise River.
 

 
 
16. Boondocking along this powerfull river.
 

 
 
17. Going upstream the next morning.
 

 
 
18. Descent of Trinity Lakes I have not met, the snow still blocking the pass to access to.
 

 
 
19. Nice small lake at Atlanta ID. Just above is the best hot spring in which I bathed so far!
 

 
 
20. Old cabins in Atlanta, a Gold Rush town still inhabited today.
 

 
 
21. This one looks more “cosy”…
 

 
 
22. … and that one more rustic.
 

 
 
23. The river along which I slept that night…
 

 
 
24. … and a neighboor ! 🙂 It’s an endemic marmott of the Rockies.
 

 
 
Next to come soon.