Idahoâs highway 21 is a busy road because it is a winter gateway to everything from snowshoeing to snowmobiling.
I drive it a lot in the winter to hit the nordic ski trails about 18 miles northeast of Idaho City. It seems like Iâm so zoned in on getting from Boise to Gold Fork Park Nâ Ski area that I donât really see whatâs along the highway. I must have driven that road hundreds and hundreds of times since I first started cross-country skiing the area in the mid-â70s, even before formal nordic ski trails were developed in the area. I used to bushwhack mountain draws and old logging roads back in the days of Jackrabbit ski wax (remember the creosol-type smell of that wax?).