SELKIRK LOOP SELKIRK LOOP - International Selkirk Loop
SELKIRK LOOP SELKIRK LOOP - International Selkirk Loop
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Sandpoint<br />
Idaho<br />
Lake Pend Oreille<br />
Lake Pend Oreille is tucked into the northern<br />
panhandle of Idaho that, for all its beauty<br />
and natural attractions, remains relatively little<br />
known and out of the way. This is despite the fact<br />
that the area has been receiving a lot of national<br />
press in recent years as a great place to visit and<br />
live. As part of the Inland Northwest, it’s still not a<br />
place many find accidentally.<br />
Lake Pend Oreille is for people who like big<br />
water. Maybe you’re the active type who wants<br />
to lustily embrace any number of recreational<br />
pursuits in, on, under or high above the water. Or<br />
perhaps you prefer more passive engagements<br />
like gazing out over the lake to catch a spectacular<br />
sunset from the deck of a local restaurant.<br />
Some activities can even be enjoyed from the<br />
comfort of your automobile, like photographing<br />
a moose feeding in the shallows of one of the<br />
lake’s many sloughs. Share in the best of what<br />
nature can offer here and you will create lifelong<br />
memories.<br />
As big as Lake Pend Oreille is, it might<br />
surprise you to discover that it’s also a fine lake to<br />
venture out in a canoe or kayak. There are sever-<br />
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Lake Pend Oreille as seen<br />
from Trail 120 above Hope<br />
(Jim Mellen)<br />
Right: Legendary Lake Pend<br />
Oreille, another Keokee<br />
guide book, was published<br />
in 2009<br />
al ideal places for launching launching non-motorized craft<br />
that give you an opportunity to explore some of<br />
the quieter areas of the lake, along or with family<br />
and friends. Paddling is a great way to spend a<br />
few hours or a few days on the water. And you’ll<br />
be experiencing the lake in the same spirit as<br />
the Kalispel Indians who were the region’s first<br />
inhabitants. Their primary form of transportation<br />
was their unique, sturgeon-nose canoe.<br />
Paddling is also the best way to observe<br />
wildlife on the lake, and the quieter you are the<br />
more you’ll observe. Maybe it’s an osprey carrying<br />
a trout in its talons back to the nest, a beaver<br />
startling you with a sudden slap of his tail on the<br />
water, or a great blue heron taking flight with<br />
a squawk sounding prehistoric enough to be a<br />
pterodactyl.<br />
– Excerpt, Legendary Lake Pend Oreille
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