The next morning I put those same wet socks on, the same wet boots on, the same wet pants ? It was definitely memorable as being uncomfortable.? Every night I would wring my wool socks out. ?I had no idea that it was bringing ten days of rain, sleet and freezing rain,? he said. It didn?t rain the first day of the 11-day stretch, which included crossing the Stoddard Pack Bridge over the Main Salmon River and entering the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, but Lemon said he saw lenticular clouds forewarning bad weather. ![]() He added that the worst trouble he had with wild animals involved mice.įor 10 out of 11 days in September, as Lemon traveled from the Flying B Ranch on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River to the Clinkenbeard outfitter camp near Nez Perce Pass on the Montana border, it rained heavily. By far the most dangerous encounters were with my own animals,? Lemon said. That is a popular misconception about the trail. ?People wonder about the dangers of wild animals. The last stage of Lemon?s journey turned out to be rainy as he traveled through the dense forests of the Frank Church - River of No Return Wilderness, which included a repeat of his trip from the previous summer with his friend Bob Jonas, a Ketchum resident. ?After I doctored her, by the next day her limp was gone.? ?Mules heal incredibly fast,? Lemon said. ![]() Highway 12 near Kooskia, one of the mules, Bernice, snagged a wire on her back hock. On the last leg of the journey from Challis to a trailhead along U.S. Lemon even traded in one mule for another in Utah. There were some injuries and brushes with fast moving traffic as Lemon and his three mules traversed the Rockies this summer and fall. Jake Lemon, of Hailey, nears the end of a summer-long mule trek from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon to Northern Idaho.Īfter five and a half months and 1,300 miles on the trail, Hailey resident Jake Lemon has completed his mule trek from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon to Northern Idaho. Mule trekker reaches the end of the trail
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