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Camping on Summit Creek

Camping on Summit Creek My wife Shirley and I decided we needed to take our travel trailer and make one more trip to the mountains before the snow fell and the weather got too cold.  Our favorite camping spot on Phi Kappa Creek in the Salmon/Challis National Forrest was taken when we arrived so we decided to check out the Phi Kappa Creek campground.  The campground had too many people like us, or maybe they were archery hunters, so we decided to check out other places. We found a nice spot on Summit Creek about half way between Phi Kappa and Park Creek campgrounds opposite Little Fall Creek.  It was easy to get into and we had it all to ourselves.  We were a little closer to the road (Trail Creek Road) than we wanted to be but this proved to be a non-problem. We spent 2 days camping and enjoyed every minute.  When we were leaving (got about 1/2 mile down the road from where we were camped and saw a cow and calf moose standing in the middle of the road. I slowed almost to a