Dateline August 12, 2019, Big Sky and the Idaho Club
Big Sky Brewery. We left the caverns and made for our next Harvest Host, the Big Sky Brewery in Missoula, and a perfect stop it was, with good beer to go with it.
They are a sizable outfit, shipping to sixteen states and three countries, and the beer they are best known for is Moose Drool, a brown ale. John gave it a try and enjoyed it, a tinge of coffee about it. They set us up on a flat lot out back, where another Sprinter pulled in later in the evening, and it was a perfect spot for the night.
The Idaho Club. We took our time the next morning, bound for Idaho and the Idaho Club at Sandpoint, another course we had arranged to write about. Out on the byways we saw all manner of animals, among them a big buck standing on one side of the road while the rest of his party waited across the way for the traffic to pass.
When we reached the Idaho Club they could not have been nicer, telling us all about the course and how it was playing. The place has been through some lean financial times and was bought by a group out of Florida, who mean to keep developing the home sites while holding the course to a high standard; the lots up on the cliffs, facing the water, run into the millions.
The course is in excellent condition, every hole well kept, though it does not route easily, and at times you feel you are playing eighteen separate holes. It is tough as nails, and you can lose a golf ball in a flash.
We enjoyed the round, then headed off to our next Harvest Host, the Matchwood Brewing Company in Sandpoint. The next morning we set out for Washington State, the next leg of our adventures.
