One can follow the Idaho BDR or take the highway to get to Porthill. Either way, it’s a beautiful ride.
This is the only motorcycle accessible airmail arrow near Boise. Site 26 https://g.co/gemini/share/44521d4566a1
Access off Ditto Creek road and Desert Duck road, then via rough double tracks. https://goo.gl/maps/dybXJcG4UECvW6NX8
Cold and windy but nice A lot of construction getting ready for the big season
Rode my little XT225 fromLogan to Bear lake area. A great ride awesome scenery BUT very cold. Got to Pink (red) bench and was shivering so the selfie stick wobbled around and this is best shot I could get. Wonderful view of lake from there!
Hey this site looks familiar! I'm trying to decide if I gained weight?.......or lost weigh since last year. LOL!
Pretty cool site....be sure to walk down to the placards placed on the stone wall overlooking the crossing. Reading them makes me appreciate my 1250cc "horse" that much more. Oh, and indoor plumbing and hot water. And bridges.
Gravel "2" if coming from the east.....Paved "1" if coming from the west. Gravel "2" on the mile-long approach road to the site.
Interesting ride in.....Took Hot Creek (HC) Rd from Hwy 20. Took the first road into it from the west (did NOT have to go through a gate of any type). Picked my way down that two-track without any issues, got to the State land and to the cave itself. Took my pictures, then took the more-established dirt track due north back to HC Rd. This is the short way, the one with the hot-wire "gate" and the barbed-wire gate at HC Rd (you know you're at the right gate when you see the Winnebago camper on the north side of HC Rd. that looks like it's right out of Breaking Bad....complete with a pair of pants hanging from the passenger's side mirror!!). This one was sketchy'er than the two-track I took into the site. Someone (State?) had disc'ed around the State land where the cave is, presumably a fire break......however they also disc'ed parts of the dirt track back to HC Rd, which made the ride out...interesting on a big bike.
As for the cave itself, it's pretty cool!
Laid down 479 miles of pavement for this one. Beautiful weather and roads.
