Isaac

[LOGDOG]

That's pretty Paul. What town is that? Enderby? No poisonous snakes huh? I'll take it! Just give me a few acres up on a bench on one of those slopes high enough to be out of the flood zone. Of course ...there's always the possibility of an avalanche. That's why in my original comment I named WI, MN, and the U.P. of Michigan. Fairly tame up there in comparison to other parts of the country when it comes to calamity. A few tornadoes now and then. An occasional flood, but not many. No avalanches. No poisonous snakes. 

[Paul_H]

The town is Pemberton.

[Mooseherder]

That is a gorgeous town.

[LOGDOG]

I agree. Beautiful .....

[Bandmill Bandit]

The heaviest flooding was in the lower center of the pic.Some of the surrounding mountains are well over 8000 ft.No poisonous snakes.

I lived about 12 miles south of there for 11 years. Just out side of a town called Armstrong. Summers are awesome. Winters are short and pretty mild. Snow fall can be a few feet and there are so many pristine lakes that you'd have a hard time getting to all of them even if you only caught one fish in each one and left. Course you hev to live there a while before the locals will start telling/showing where to find them and how to get to them. A lot of them can only be accessed by quad and then some only on horse back.

There are rattlers in a few places but mostly along the south facing cliffs I know people that say they seen em at the Enderby cliffs but I never seen any there. Rattle Snake point on Kal lake has lot of em but they dont seem to go too far a field from those two places in that part of the valley.

Flooding is just a part of the months of June into early July and some years it does get quite bad. I had a bobcat and small track hoe business when I lived there and I had about 2 to 3 weeks of clean up/rebuild  work every year. it is indeed one of the best place in North america to live. The problem is find work if you dont work for your self. And the paradise tax (HST) of 12%.

As far as pristine benches go? You'd have a hard tim making up your mind once you saw a few. The issue there is domestic water. I installed more than a few water systems that were worth more then the house I connected them too.

There is a bench just north of Enderby called the Grandview Bench & may even be the bench this pic was taken from. I did a water system install for 4 people that had bought land high on that bench. The well is on the valley floor and I installed 3600 lineal feet of 3 inch(might a been 4") sched 120 PVC with a lift station and 1,000 gal reservoir at 1800 and then a pressure/ distribution station and 1000 gal reservoir at the top. It was basically sufficient to service about 12 or 16 lots that had been subdivided up there. The day I turned on the switches and opened the taps those lots went from about 16K for 3 ish to 5 ish acres to over a 100K for the  same lots and they were sold in less than a week. That price included a $35,000 per lot for the water system Co op buy in and then there was a monthly usage charge as well. I also did 5 or 6 of the septic systems and drive ways up there.

I guess the pemberton ID post got added while I was typing and I type pretty slow. Oh well now you know about Endery by too.

Enerby and area flood pictures

http://www.google.ca/search?q=enderby+cliffs&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=n5dDUKb_FtHZigLExYCgAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CCYQsAQ&biw=1440&bih=708#hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=2012+enderby+flooding&oq=2012+enderby+flooding&gs_l=img.3...731767.741919.0.742208.19.15.0.0.0.1.1064.1809.3j2j0j1j7-1.7.0...0.0...1c.JlHTDrUoFbU&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=efbad4575b0d8f9f&biw=1440&bih=712

This link will give you enough pictures of the area to make you fall in love with it fast.

     http://www.google.ca/search?q=enderby+cliffs&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=n5dDUKb_FtHZigLExYCgAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CCYQsAQ&biw=1440&bih=708