Libby

After the Grizzly survey, I went to Libby to spend a few days with Amanda and Tom Steele.

Tom and I wanted to float the Kootenai River. We got busy doing stuff and didn’t leave Libby until 7 PM.

On the drive up, I asked how long the float would take.

He said, four hours.

I made the mistake of going swimming right away. Snow-melt water. And then the sun went behind the mountains.

Tom brought his magnet fishing pole. In case there might be some interesting metal on the bottom of the river.

We caught nothing. Just hung up on rocks.

Up this draw is where the vermiculite mine used to be.

We had to paddle to make it back to Libby before dark.