Category: Fly Fishing
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Adventure Buddies: A Letter to Our Pup
Happy Birthday to Our Little Adventurer Dear Bella, This is your second birthday. You are officially a teenager. Because of this coming-of-age, your humans would like to reflect on your puppyhood, your adventures, and the exciting years to come. So, here goes… Bella, we spent a very long time looking for you. About 15 years…
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The Great Road Trip This July marks the one year anniversary of our three week road trip from southern Idaho to Edmonton, Alberta. So, in light of the occasion, it’s only fitting that this Throwback Thursday post is all about our Alberta trip. I have to say that our trip to Edmonton, Alberta took a…
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Fly Fishing: Expectations & Realities
Those Aren’t “Wind” Knots… I am not an expert fly fisherman, nor will I ever claim to be. I started fly fishing a year and a half ago, and I have struggled, triumphed, gotten angry, celebrated, cursed, caught fish, and lost a lot of fish. Growing up spin fishing and bass fishing, I always looked…
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Where is the Trail? This is something we kept asking ourselves once we made it to the end of the maintained trail and set out on the footpath that leads up the mountain. This is also when maps and research pay off. My biggest piece of advice to anyone making their way into the backcountry…
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Backpacking: The Uphill Battle
Just One More Ridgeline This week we are prepping to take our first backpacking trip of the year into the Sawtooth National Forest. Yes, we are late getting up into the mountains this year, but that’s life! Our first extended backpacking trip last summer with family and friends was breathtaking, and immediately had us hooked. That…
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Spring Camping & Thunderstorms
Silver City, Idaho Recovering from our Alaska adventure means taking a weekend trip into the mountains. For those of you who don’t know, here’s a bit of history on Silver City, Idaho… During its “heydays”, Silver City had about a dozen streets, seventy-five businesses, three hundred homes, a population of around 2,500, twelve ore-processing mills,…
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Last Frontier: The Reflection
Ready for a New Adventure Working in the education system and being in the military has brought out a certain sense of sarcastic cynicism in my normally optimistic worldview, but a few things this trip has taught me are: Just about everyone we met from our research acquaintances, our neighbors at Raven, the guides and…
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Last Frontier: The Adventure
Did That Really Just Happen? Alaska Adventure: April 30th – May 8th You know that excited feeling right before you set off on a big trip? I do. It’s mostly why neither myself nor my partner-in-crime went to bed before our 5:00am flight out of Boise, ID. We slept pretty much all day Sunday, and…
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Last Frontier: Pre-Trip Prep
Prepping for an Adventure Like all great adventures, this one started out as an idea. Between washing dishes, helping cook dinner for customers, and setting up camp, we were telling stories about fishing. Then, during dinner, we were listening to stories about Alaska. Alaska is known for its wilderness and its fishing. These two things…
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