Wandering the Warners, 2021

I don’t know if you have been out in the great outdoors in the past year, but if you have I’m going to bet that if you had to choose one word for your experience it would be “busy”. Yes, it’s busy out there. I can only hope with the pandemic slowing down that people will go back to whatever they were doing before it struck, instead of camping, fishing and generally crowding things up. So, with this in mind, and with Memorial Day upon us, what were we to do? Where could we go that wouldn’t be over run by the crowds? Well, I guess our answer was, as far away as possible. Luckily we found some peace and quiet. But trust me, you would never want to go there. So don’t do it. I’m serious.

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Fishing the Fremont, 2020

Where do you go when you want to get out and want to stay away from people? What do you do when all your favorite rivers are closed to floating? The Fremont National Forest sounded like the solution. Far from population centers and lacking any big time tourist draws, the streams of the Fremont offered two weekend quiet late spring getaways for fishing and even a float.

First up was a float down the Sycan. Not a lot of fish, but the scenery and lack of people made up for it.

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Deadhorse Lake, 2019

Did you ever just want to get away from the crowds, boats, hikers and noise? Living in the chaos that is Bend gets you thinking about that kind of stuff all the time. A bit of a trip east or south usually is a good cure. This weekend we went south and found Deadhorse Lake. It wasn't the ultimate cure, as it seemed that water, in a place that has very little, is still a…

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