After I couldn't find a guide to help me. I went to Plan B.   Concord had an old airstrip, and if I could just find a pilot to take out there.  I enquired at the Elk City office of the National Forest Service and was told that the airstrip was no longer operational because deer grazed on the landing strip.

Plan C was to do it myself.

When I told people I was planning on trying to get to Concord and back in one day, the folks in Oregrande looked either amused or concerned about my sanity.  

On a map, it didn't look too bad. It was 14.6 miles.  If I could drive down the road to Wild Horse Lake, I'd be about halfway there.  The day before my attempt, I scouted out the Crooked River Road.  It was an old stagecoach road that the miners used to get up to Concord. I proceeded about a 1/2 mile down the road before the rocks threatened my muffler. So it would be a 14-mile hike in and another 14 miles out. I was feeling fit. Doable, maybe?  The 4000 ft. change of elevation would be another challenge. 

After hearing all day about the danger of wolves, I googled “things that can kill me in Idaho.”  Here are the top 10 animals:

• Grizzly Bears.Their population has exploded alongside the wolves.
• Great Basin Rattlesnake. 
• Northern Pacific Rattlesnake.
• Prairie Rattlesnake.
• Bison. 
• Gopher Snake.
• Black Widow Spider.
• Brown Recluse Spider.
• Yellow Jacket Wasps
• Paper wasps

I wasn’t too worried about Bison, but bees and wasps could finish me off quickly.  One Epipen wouldn’t help much.

Then, I compiled a list of non-living things that could kill me:

• Avalanche - A real danger on the unmaintained roads
• Dehydration - I could only carry a limited amount of water
• Exposure- If I couldn’t get in and out and had to spend a night at elevation, it could get dangerously cold.
• Wildfire - The area was prone to devastating fires.  Much of old Concord had burned down from repeated fires over the years.​

The final two were the most dangerous:

• Injury - there was a good chance for twisting, spraining, or breaking an ankle on the scramble up the old road.
• Getting lost - I had a compass, and I would buy a good map, but, heck, I can get lost in my hometown Concord, and I would definitely struggle to find my way to Concord, Idaho. 

This list doesn't include the ways I could run afoul with other humans on my way to Concord.  Everybody seemed to own a gun and the nearest sheriffs' office was over an hour away. When there were problems in Oregrande, Bob, Tom and their friends took care of things - old fashioned western justice style.  They told the story of a young drunk who was beating his girlfriend, so they confronted him and kicked him out of town.