During World War II, this area that the State Park is on, used to be the Farragut Naval Training Station, a major training base for the U.S. Navy. Over 293,000 sailors received basic training at this facility throughout its 30 months of operation. It was also used as a POW camp for 900 Germans working as gardeners and maintenance men. Then in 1946 the facility was decommissioned and turned into a college until it closed down in 1949 because of financial problems. In 1964 it became a park and has been the site of several Boy and Girl Scout outings and Jamborees. This park is large, about 4,000 acres and has over 220 individual campsites and 45 miles of hiking, biking, horse and llama trails. However large and famous this park used to be, its pretty quiet here, we rarely saw other people out on the trails.
It has been raining on and off here for a few days, even occasionally small marble sized hail as shown above.
Behind me is Lake Pend Oreille, where the swim will be on Saturday.
We went exploring Farragut's trails and attempted to pre-ride the race course even though it has not been marked yet. It took us 3 hours and a lot of map studying on mom's part, to get some idea of what the course will be like. It'll be a fast ride on race day, a few hills but mostly rolling, a lot of twists and turns and a few mud patches because of the rain.
Mom and me riding through one of the meadows of Farragut! So far we have seen a couple deer and hundreds (not quite, but you get the idea) of squirrels and gophers.
Lake Pend Oreille, at 65 miles long, is Idaho's largest lake. It is also known as the 5th deepest lake in the U.S. In some places the bottom reaches 1,150 feet deep.
Even on a sunny day the lake water temperature hit 53 degrees F.
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