Idaho Centennial Trail 12

The last spot I left off was at some corrals, at the and of the 4x4 road, the Idaho Centennial Trail has been a 4x4 road up to this point. Well actually there was one mile that you would have to walk or ride a bike, peddle bike or motorbike would work I think. We passed Anderson Ranch resovoir  on the way to the next part of the trail  I was going to do, I was going to do it   (north to south) insted of south to north like I had been doing ; so I went to an old town called Featherville

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hen went east about four or five miles to a campground/trailhead called Willow Creek, it had a bridge crossing the river going to the south.  The Idaho Centennial Trail runs right threw the campgroung, and keeps going all the way to hwy 75 north of Sun Valley about twenty five miles. It is single track wide, (no 4wheelers) you’ll have to take motorcycle, walk, horse or maybe a bicycle. The trail also forks about half way to the hwy, so you can go west at the half way point and end up at

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. Anyway on Sept 25, 2006 we started by Featherville at Willow Creek trailhead and went south.

  I talked a few friends into going with me (Brian, Kevin, and Brian’s younger brother Johnny was on his  first big ride on his new YZ250F dirt bike,  which was a little to tall for him and would turn out to be disastrous later on in the story. I studied my Benchmark Map with my Garmin GPS, and felt like we could get to where I left off with Don. I figured it to be about twenty miles each way; I thought we would be done in one day but the first thing we ran into was a tight two mile long monster hill,  which did not impress any of my buddies. I would guess we rode around a mile or mile and a half when they all told me forget it, it was too tough. I like that kind of stuff, so I told them I would go on alone............       to be continued in Idaho Centennial Trail 13

P.S. Always carry a survival backpack, with flint and steel to start a fire.