"Whooping Cough Tour"

May 17 5:20

Symptoms match what I have. 

May 19 10:24

"Are you making another appointment? Do you think the antibiotics they gave you will help if it is whooping cough?"

May 20 11:45
They never gave me any antibiotics.  1st visit they gave me a
cortisone nose spray and a time-release antihistamine. 2nd visit, I
got an inhaler.  I also bought some Cepacol? throat lozenges and some
Tylenol.  Since Sunday I've begun to feel a bit better. I did a very
short bit of hiking from the Elk Meadows trailhead hoping to connect
to the ICT junction with the Elk Mt trl (just west of Stanley Lake)
that I had done with snowshoes about two weeks ago, but got turned
back after only about a half mile by still too much snow and downed
trees on a steep slope, so didn't even reach my current weak stamina.

To recap my whole weekend, which I'm calling part two of my "Whooping
Cough Tour" (the first half being the Burns - Steens - Leslie Gulch -
Owyhee Dam loop,)  I left town overnighting at the Blacks Creek rest
stop between Boise and Moutain Home, spent the next day at the MtHome
library (I had started reading a book last time I was there called
"Einstein's Unfinished Revolution" by Lee Smolin on Quantum Physics -
a bunch of nonmathematical handwaving - but anyway - it was no longer
available) and doing my laundry, then overnighted on the NE side of
Bennett Mt before heading to Sun Valley on Saturday, taking the Sun
Valley - Trail Creek road across the Pioneer Mt range into the next
valley to the Borah Peak trailhead, then a bit north stopping at a
fault scarp point of Interest before heading across the Lost River
Range into the next valley (P...? just west of the Lemhi Range),
overnighting on Grouse Peak Rd (a 4wd road that headed into the P...?
Range past emerging just SW of Challis.)  Spectacular views of
thunderstorms over the Lemhi Range just as was the case last time I
was in that area, at that time on the East side of the Lemhi's.
Sunday morning I tried continuing up the Grouse peak road, managed to
negotiate a half dozen tricky v-shaped gulleys in the road before
being blocked by a large muddy swamp.  backtracked and stopped at the
P...? fish hatchery then back west through Challis & Stanley,
attempting to whittle off that 2.5 bit of ICT through Elk meadows and
another side-road portion of ICT on Cape Horn Road (that I'd done a
portion of via Snowshoe a few weeks back) just north of there (being
blocked this time by Kelley Creek at peak flow crossing the road.
Backtracked and continued past the still spectacular remains of the
snow/landslide just West of B...? pass (East of Lowman,) overnighting
at the Granite Creek camping area just E of Idaho City.  Got a coffee
this morning at the store in Idaho City, then a shower at the Flying J
on Federal Way near the airport, before getting here to the library.
(I wish there were some decent online maps showing physical features
such as mountain ranges, frustrating that this is absent Bing and
Google, slowing down and distracting my writing.)

Gotta get downloading my photos ...