Wow how times flies, It seems like just yesterday we were watching cutthroats rise to a fly in the Idaho mountains, and now here we are in October! Back in August we took a week and explored a local river and met with great success in casting a few flies and reeling in a few fish.
There is a place in Idaho that has the highest mountains in the state, abundant high elevation lakes and relatively few people. It’s hard to put a label on it, and it hasn’t been branded with this or that “protection” that usually brings in the hordes and destroys the place with crowds fawning all over the place. We got to spend a few days there this August.
For the spring equinox we headed east to the Boise National Forest to a yurt we rented a while back. The Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation runs a system of yurts and in the winter grooms cross country ski and snowshoe trails leading to them. They keep them well stocked with wood and supplies. We backpacked in with our food and clothes and stayed for two nights.
