Episode 20: The Idaho BDR

WARNING: This episode contains explicit language and suggestive material!

After dominating the Washington BDR trail system at the end of June, we set our sights on the biggest Backcountry Discovery Route on the map, Idaho! We traveled over 1,500 miles from Mountain Home, Idaho to Jarbidge, NV and onto the Canadian border! This is a reunion of all the guys from the trip, our experiences, laughter and more! This is an EPIC episode of EPIC length covering an EPIC adventure!

Quick link: sxsguys.link/episode20

Rundown

0:00:00 - Introductions 0:20:18 - Things Get Weird 0:22:06 - Kicking Off the Idaho BDR 0:23:33 - Trip Preparation & Perceptions 0:35:18 - Day 0: Mountain Home to Jarbidge 0:38:53 - Day 1: Jarbidge to Trinity Lakes 0:53:06 - Day 2: Trinity Lakes to Yellow Pine 1:13:18 - Day 3: Yellow Pine to Almost Elk City 1:40:08 - Day 4: Elk City to Lolo (Magruder Corridor) 2:04:12 - Day 5: Lolo to Pierce 2:25:33 - Day 6: Pierce to South of Lake Pend Oreille 2:37:51 - Day 7: Clark Fork to Canada 2:40:13 - Arriving at the Border 2:42:24 - Post Border Logistics 2:53:09 - Post Trip Retrospect 3:02:40 - Wrap-up

Applicable Links

Backcountry Discovery Routes Washington BDR Idaho BDR BDR GPX File Downloads Razorback Offroad Jarbidge, NV (Wikipedia) Trinity Lakes (USFS) Buggy Whips Weller Racing Yellow Pine, ID (Wikipedia) Burgdorf Hot Springs Rigins, ID Elk City, ID (Wikipedia) Poet Creek Campground (USFS) Magruder Corridor (USFS) Burnt Knob Lookout (USFS) Hamilton, MT (Wikipedia) Lolo, MT (Wikipedia) Garmin inReach Iridium GPS Transceiver Blue Heaven Cabin (Mapcarta) Avery, ID (Wikipedia) Wallace, ID (Wikipedia) Clark Fork, ID (Wikipedia) Porthill, ID (Wikipedia)

Drivers

Zach Jeffers (Instagram) Ian Blomgren (Instagram) Ben Smith (Instagram) Cooper Rasmussen (Instagram) Wes Inskeep (Instagram) Mike Everett

Producers

Bryan McCarthy (Instagram) Brant Page (Instagram) Cameron Hotchkiss (Instagram)

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