Are Idaho pictographs a shaman’s dream?
The way people communicated visually with each other before the advent of ink and paper has fascinated me. A roadside attraction along the Salmon River offers a geology lesson and…
Feathery Frost: This Ice is Nice
Feathery frost coated the landscape after a cold, foggy night in Salmon, Idaho, on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. National Weather Service folks and online authorities seem to disagree on what…
Look! I can grow something
Look! I can grow something (updated) Last fall we planted more than 100 bulbs in hopes of a colorful garden this year. We left behind hundreds of tulips, daffodils and…
Best of 2020 photo e-book
Welcome to the 14th edition of my "Best Images" books. Here's a PDF of this year's edition. I think it is best downloaded so pages can be viewed in the…
A moose wanders onto the property on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Salmon, Idaho. It is the first moose sighting since moving here. (© 2020 Cindi Christie/Cyanpixel)
Looking for a moose in all the wrong places
A moose wanders onto the property on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Salmon, Idaho. It is the first moose sighting since moving here. (© 2020 Cindi Christie/Cyanpixel) Ever since moving…
The remains of what were once 16 charcoal kilns built in 1886 by Montanan Warren C. King bask in the sun at the Charcoal Kilns Historic Site on Friday, July 10, 2020, in Lemhi County, Idaho. Four kilns in various states of preservation can be viewed on a self-guided tour after a 5-mile drive on a gravel road. The brick kilns were used to turn timber into charcoal. The charcoal powered a smelter in Nicholia, across the Birch Creek Valley, to process lead and silver from the Viola Mine. The kilns are now part of the Caribou-Targhee National Forest. (© 2020 Cindi Christie/Cyanpixel)
Charcoal kilns in Idaho
Five miles up a rugged, dusty gravel road off Highway 28 in Lemhi County, Idaho, rise four preserved remains of what were once 16 clay charcoal kilns. The enormous domed…