Back on the Blog....

Hello everyone, I'm finally settled in and am going to try to blog again. No new pics as of yet but I will try to get some up as soon as possible. Happy holidays!

Back from the land of no sales tax.........

Howdy podnerz, Just blew back into town after nearly a week in class at Treasure Valley Community College (TVCC) attending S-390 Intro to fire behavior calculations. Let me tell y'all, it's a helluva lot warmer down there in Ontario, OR than it is here in the hills. I'm talkin' 50 degrees and SUNNY! Anyhoo, the class was great; got to learn a lot about different ways of figgerin' out what a wildfire might do using nomograms, fireline handbook appendix B, and the computer program BEHAVEplus. Good shit to know for the fire nerd in all of us. Might rain this weekend, meaning them steelhead might move up the the river, and I got my transition strips from home depot along with my base trim stix to pretty up the dwelling (I'll post some pics when it's done). Hope all is well on yer driveway of the information dirt road! More to come.......

More pics still to come...

Thanks y'all for the cordial homecoming, although the fish in the pic is not a salmon in fact but a steelhead. This particular critter was a native female (note the adipose fin intact behind the dorsal) south fork clearwater river b-run. On the clearwater river there are two types of steelhead, A-run and B-run. A-run fish are generally smaller than b-run and are not looking to spawn in the cleawater but the snake or salmon rivers. During the fall, the water in the snake is still pretty warm so the A-run fish swim up the cooler water of the Clearwater until the snake cools down. It can be pretty fun because you get two chances to catch 'em, when they swim up and when they swim down. The B-run fish are much larger, up to 25 lbs or so, and are bound for the south fork clearwater, selway, and lochsa rivers. Idaho is also the only inland state with steelhead runs. Now you know.

Back up on the information dirt road....

Hey there everybody, just signed up with the local access wizard and now have dedicated internet to pinky (no more poaching). This winter has been a really good one, although short, and we are almost done with the inside of the house. A few more trim sticks and a little plumbing ought to seal the deal until next winter. Other than that, I've got in some really good skiing with a few backcountry trips up to lick creek lookout, sargeant's peak, big creek, and elk summit. Also, quite a few steelies have been pulled out of the river by the bandit and his fly rod on both the salmon and clearwater rivers and a nice one out of the wenatchee in november. Going back to the green machine here in a few days and am looking forward to getting back on the payroll. Anyhoo, here's a few pics (I'll post more later) from the previous winter.