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[Occidental]

We took a trip to Montana.  A friend drew a permit on the Smith, and those permits are hard to come by.  Five days on the Smith and a day on the Blackfoot, followed by the trip home through Stanley Idaho are detailed in the two posts below.

 

https://www.occident...-1-smith-river/

https://www.occident...2-the-way-home/

 

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Thanks for letting us tag along!  It looks like you had a wonderful time.

[Vic Harder]

very nice!  I was at Stanley lake last summer.  Wonderful spot!

[AWG_Pics]

The Stanley area is one of my favorite areas since the 1970's. There is sooooo much to do and see there. Lakes, rivers and mountains obviously. Also hot springs, primitive camping galore, mining history and spectacular scenery and hiking. Thanks for the reminder. We are hoping to get out there again when this pandemic subsides a bit.

[Occidental]

The Stanley area is one of my favorite areas since the 1970's. There is sooooo much to do and see there. Lakes, rivers and mountains obviously. Also hot springs, primitive camping galore, mining history and spectacular scenery and hiking. Thanks for the reminder. We are hoping to get out there again when this pandemic subsides a bit.

Yes I'd wait until fall or possibly next year. The amount of people on the Salmon below town, and number of people in town when we went through was astounding. And it wasn't peak season quite yet.

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Thanks for the trip report.

Beautiful country. It's been about 10 years since we have been in that area.

Drove the scenic hwy from US 93 west along the Salmon.

Even camped along the river in one of the small sites.

Frank

[Taku]

Spent a lot of years fishing and boating the Blackfooot and North Fork - as well as hunting, logging, fighting fires and general carousing. Great country.

[AWG_Pics]

Spent a lot of years fishing and boating the Blackfooot and North Fork - as well as hunting, logging, fighting fires and general carousing. Great country.

I remember the old Stockman's bar in Missoula from back in the 1970's. If I recall, there was a liquor store in the front and a card game in the back, if you know what I mean.

Edited by AWG_Pics, 23 July 2020 - 12:41 AM.

[ski3pin]

Flowing mountain waters and trout......................

[Foy]

I remember the old Stockman's bar in Missoula from back in the 1970's. If I recall, there was a liquor store in the front and a card game in the back, if you know what I mean.

Certain forms of poker are considered to be games of skill rather than games of chance under Montana law and are thus allowed to be played, and wagers laid, under controlled circumstances, in Montana bars. One of the controls is that the games must be played in a separate room from the main barroom.  In many bars, this means the poker room is behind the bar from the barroom.

 

So Stockman's Bar in downtown Missoula, Montana has for at least the 42 years since I first darkened the door in 1978 used the slogan: Stockman's Bar: Liquor up front, poker in the rear.

 

Just an humble reporter of facts here, ladies and gents. At least facts as certain beer-soaked U of M geology students explained to me back in 1978. 

 

Foy, a reformed geologist who's been there, done that, and still has the tattered and threadbare T-shirt from Stockman's Bar.