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Idaho Falls, ID
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Terribly late getting this up to date. We left Great Falls on time and spent three days in Butte, MT. Wanted to stay longer, but campsites we wanted weren't available for the weekend. (BTW we knew this February). We had a good stay. We were back in the heat, but still got a good hike up Maud S Canyon.
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| Butte, MT |
Last Friday we left for Idaho Falls. Hot there, too. We got a walk in along the Riverwalk (photo at beginning top of this post) and made a trip over to the fish hatchery in Jackson, WY to visit & see the changes made from last year. (They've added a visitor center with big screen TVs and two fish tanks.)
Yesterday (Tuesday), we made the trip over to Twin Falls, ID. This is another bucket list item to visit Shoshone Falls. We'd learned of this water fall by a painting in Signal Mountain Lodge. We eventually learned it was Shoshone Falls here in Twin Falls. We're here for about a week. Still more to see, but back to Shoshone Falls.
I was concerned we would arrive at Shoshone Falls before the Snake River ran out of water. Snake River is down, but not too low. My first big surprise: I have never seen a water fall that can be turned on or off, but that's what they do with Shoshone Falls. We arrived at the park about 30 minutes before they released water from the upstream hydroelectric dam over the falls for the day. Consequently, we were able to get photos of the falls dry, then the release of water, the fill of the water pool above the falls, and finally the water fall itself. Pretty cool to see. Pictures are below.
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The dry falls
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| Initial release of water from the dam |
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More gates are opened
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| All planned gates opened and water pool is filled |
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| Water pool over flows |
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| Full falls at current water level |
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| Shoshone Falls at full flow |
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