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#31 Wandering Sagebrush

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Posted 14 September 2022 - 06:40 PM

Thanks Mr. Sage! I sense you'd like to chow down on some quality charbroiled red meat amid a classic western ambience; if I'm allowed to use ambience in the same sentence as western. We're game. You'll just have to guarantee the aforementioned Miami attorney is absent from the establishment.

 

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#32 ski3pin

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Posted 14 September 2022 - 11:49 PM

Nice trip.The I phone tells me the flower is a Felwart.

Your fish are fantastic.I am so envious.

 

Always enjoy your trips into the Montana area.

Frank

 

 

Very nice report, that area of Idaho (emanating from the White Clouds) is my favorite in the entire world.  The lakes are so pretty and you can see for miles.  Might help that I started my career in forestry there...

 

Did you ever solve the flower mystery? It does appear to be a marsh felwort based on my limited ID - 5 petals in that area doesn't leave a lot to choose from, although I couldn't see the leaf arrangement.

 

I did some searching and I believe it is a Star Gentian (Swertia perennis). Here's a link - Star Gentian

 

 

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#33 Casa Escarlata Robles Too

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Posted 15 September 2022 - 01:12 AM

Frank, yer gunna need more than a bamboo  7’ 2wt Leonard…

Yes Steve my 7' 4wt bamboo would be no match for a good size bull.

But it would be worth hooking into one.

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Posted 17 September 2022 - 02:35 AM

Mr. Ski3pin, Having worked for the forest service in the late 70's as a seasonal aide to the fisheries biologist on the SNRA, we hiked to and surveyed (fish sampling) numerous lakes in the area. As such, we sought out the names of lakes that are unnamed on the quads. Your story prompted me to drag out my old quads and I had written in long ago that the lakes of your Shangri La are Thunder (lower lake) and Lightning (upper lake). I had the pleasure of meeting Dave Lee several times passing through the 4th of July Wilderness Ranger Station. I always look forward to your interesting trip reports. Been lurking here for 14 years.


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#35 searching for nowhere

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Posted 17 September 2022 - 10:22 AM

Thanks for another stellar trip report.  The upper Imnaha and the White Clouds are now on my todo list.


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#36 ski3pin

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Posted 17 September 2022 - 11:03 PM

Mr. Ski3pin, Having worked for the forest service in the late 70's as a seasonal aide to the fisheries biologist on the SNRA, we hiked to and surveyed (fish sampling) numerous lakes in the area. As such, we sought out the names of lakes that are unnamed on the quads. Your story prompted me to drag out my old quads and I had written in long ago that the lakes of your Shangri La are Thunder (lower lake) and Lightning (upper lake). I had the pleasure of meeting Dave Lee several times passing through the 4th of July Wilderness Ranger Station. I always look forward to your interesting trip reports. Been lurking here for 14 years.

Hag Man, thanks so much for the kind comment, we appreciate it! Yup, you've found the local names. Margaret Fuller also mentions them in her guidebook. A friend was Sawtooth District Ranger years ago. His Resource Officer (also administered the special use permits for the ski areas) was the first to tell me to go into the White Clouds, said is was better than the Sawtooths. I had previously met him as he was a workshop sessions instructor when I attended National Avalanche School. This was after David Lee passed away. I suspect he was quite a unique person. We have stood on the summit of D. O. Lee Peak twice. It is amazing to tie into local knowledge and lore. :)

 

It is such a great area.

 


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#37 ski3pin

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Posted 17 September 2022 - 11:05 PM

Thanks for another stellar trip report.  The upper Imnaha and the White Clouds are now on my todo list.

searching for nowhere, you are most welcome! :)


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Posted 20 September 2022 - 04:55 PM

hey monte.  did you happen to catch any other types of trout on the imnaha?    i was on the lower deschutes last week and caught a small mouth bass.... which is too bad. 


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#39 ski3pin

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Posted 20 September 2022 - 05:22 PM

hey monte.  did you happen to catch any other types of trout on the imnaha?    i was on the lower deschutes last week and caught a small mouth bass.... which is too bad. 

 

No, I did not. I was surprised I did not see or connect with any smaller trout when I fished with nymph and dry flies.


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Posted 20 September 2022 - 11:54 PM

No, I did not. I was surprised I did not see or connect with any smaller trout when I fished with nymph and dry flies.

hmmm,  maybe those bulls take care of the smaller trout?  i know there are good populations of bulls up in SE british columbia, and i am pretty sure they also have good/great cutthroat fishing...


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