By Clarice McKenney
A friend and I went to Roman Nose for huckleberries Tuesday. Heads up to other local pickers. Wink, Inc. is replacing culverts all the way up. That day we lucked out and the first crew had not yet begun to dig up the road. Two nice employees saw us and moved to one side.
On the road up, a mother and baby moose crossed the road and went uphill on our side to get away from two big dogs that came up the hill behind them. We were happy the dogs saw the car and ran up the road.
At the top, we found no big commercial picking groups except a family group with Sandpoint car license. That was a nice surprise after finding so many commercial pickers all over the place up there.
Lots of ripe berries, but it was cut short by cold rain that bordered on snow.
On the way down the mountain a different crew from Wink, Inc. was digging a chasm straight across the road. As we watched over the next hour, the crew brought in a huge metal pipe and began back filling, spraying water over the Sandy soil and tamping it around and over the pipe.
Once stabilized, a crew member told us they were nearly to the point of letting us and two cars behind us go through. Then he waved us through.