We got to Bannock just in time to see a staged stagecoach robbery. It was very entertaining. Bannock is a state park and once a year they turn it into a sort of western Williamsburg, and it's free. People dressed up in period costumes, vendors selling western goods, lots of food, music, demonstrations of blacksmithing, candlemaking, gun shooting, and we were allowed to walk into any old house or structure. The last residents left Bannock in the mid 1970s, but it really cleared out much much earlier than that when the gold mining went sour.
We decided to camp tonight and picked a site at Miner's Lake. It was mosquito infested and I was covered in DEET and sunscreen, and the water from the hand pump was brown. The fire I made was really good though, and I had a sweet s'more and some perfectly browned marshmallows.
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