Freedom Or Whatever
Monday, January 11th, 2016Thirty Wallowa County patriots occupied the Lostine Wildlife Area Saturday night in a show of solidarity to exercise our rights to, uhhh … get together on the weekend or something? The firepower on display was impressive. You couldn’t stand closer than about three or four feet from the bonfire. Otherwise, nobody was packing heat that […]
Road Map as River Guide
Tuesday, December 15th, 2015A good river map is downright essential equipment for a proper voyage, right? Yeah, but there’s always the AAA Road Atlas alternative for finding your way by boat. It’s not ideal. Or all that safe. Or recommended, really. At all. But this story I’m linking you to is recommended. Warning: the ending appears to not […]
Solar powered Christmas gift and Wallowas covered in St. Elmo’s Ice
Monday, November 30th, 2015Imagine a world where just one thing didn’t need batteries on Christmas morning. I give you solar powered lights perfect for camping. Well, I’m not giving you anything but you can get these at the Winding Waters Boathouse Shop. The best testimonial I can give is that I was not so sure about these Luci […]
Steelhead Salad Sandwich
Thursday, November 19th, 2015Cooking fish intimidates many people. Or is it just me? All right, fine. Just me. I worry the slab of fish will be undercooked, which is gross. Or overdone, which is like eating rubbery ingots. Even if fish turns out just right, I worry it’s not just right enough. Preparing fish is high stakes cookery. […]
Nooooooooo
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015I’m oh-for-three. Not great stats for the opener of steelhead season conference play. In a not-so-funny coincidence, I listened to a guy telling me just last week he’d lost four steelhead in a row. I don’t know what’s going on, he said. I told him I’d endured a similar spell of not getting fish to […]
What a Load of Bull Trout
Thursday, October 22nd, 2015The upper Imnaha country is an honest-to-golly end of the rainbow place to be this time of year with hillsides of gold from the tamaracks going off. The weather for the bull trout spawning ground survey at the end of October was eeeeeeeepic. Gearboat master Todd Kruger was the wilderness chef. Barry Cox packed our […]