For those needing a stop for, fuel, food, or overnight lodging I would like to put a plug in for Grangeville, ID http://www.airnav.com/airport/S80

It is just a hop from Elk City and the Church Wilderness.

If you need a place to stay I can strongly recommend the Super 8:

Super 8
801 SW 1st Street, Grangeville, Idaho 83530
For Reservations and Info Call 208-983-1002

If you cannot get one of the Idaho courtesy cars ( $5/day $0.33/mile) at the airport the folks at the hotel will pick you up and bring you back.

Airport managers live on the airport.

Fuel this past weekend was $4.09/gal.

Grangville is only 20NM away from my hometown. Used to play them in High School sports. Very nice area!

The Elk River strip in that area is really nice. all grass, good food, nice folks. I also played football against Grangeville in the early 70s when I lived in Orofino.

Grangeville is my hometown (GHS 1972) and yes we played the Orofino Maniacs (I'll let shorton explain the origin of the mascot name). My family still farms there. Jr.CubBuilder, it seems like everyone has discovered Grangeville of late. The land prices have gotten pretty ridiculous (of course by California standards, it is simply dirt cheap).

The airport manager, Herman Kingma, is a very nice man (went to high school with his daughter).

A very little known fact, and not publicized (hell, I didn't even know it until a trip home over the 4th of July) is that Gortsema Motors will lease you a car for about $30/day and they will bring the car to the airport and pick it up when you leave.

If you have car, a great place to stay is the Whitebird Summit Lodge. Frank and Terri Schmitz own the place and it is just like staying at home. Frank and Terri are also big game guides and Frank has a lot of great trophies in the Lodge.

Shorton my hometown is Pierce.. it really is a small world sometimes!! How ya been 375handh?

Ya run into people all over the world that you have bumped into somewhere in life.

Orofino was the home of the Idaho state mental hospital for a long time and I was always told that was where the name came from.

We had the damdest looking warmup drills on game day that you have ever seen.

Played for an ugly little character name Coach Johnson.

What's 375handH?

My full name is Shane D. Horton, we live up Whiskey crick just past Konkleville. I used to ride my motorcycle over the railroad trestle there.

AvidFlyer:

Doing well, but work keeps interfering with fun. Did manage to get to Grangeville for the still great Border Days. Flew the 182 up, but missed having the Super Cub while I was there.

SHorton:

375handh is like in caliber .375 H&H Magnum. Just a nice cartridge for darned near anything from ground squirrels (maybe a little much) to elk.

The family farm is four miles north of Fenn.

Knew Konkolville well. Joe Richardson owned the lumbermill there. He also built a beautiful house on 126 acres on Moose Creek, just a mile up from the Ranger Station. Sold it to a very nice gentlemen from San Jose in the mid-60s. I tried to buy the place for 20 years, but finally one of the conservancy groups got it a couple of years ago and turned it over to the Forest Service. It won't be long before the house and barn are torn down. They quit maintaining the very interesting landing strip several years ago. I flew in several times with one of the great (now gone) Idaho backcountry pilots from Grangeville, Frank Hill.

Take care.

Been there once, on a firefighting detail during the 2002 fires. Grangeville was a great community to spend time in (and fly in and out of!) Then I moved up to Elk City and the Red River area, beautiful. The locals were still smarting over the whole spotted owl thing, but they mostly welcomed us Feds with open arms. And apparently you can actually afford to live there, no Kalifornication yet

Ah so said the chinaman, That is the last rifle to give me an idiot mark, Cut me pretty good too. Makes it hard to see for the second shot with blood running into your eyes and your head ringing

Not really the guns fault as much as the scope had very little eye relief. I will re-scope it and hope to take it to Africa in the next few years.

I'd sure like to do some flying over there, moose spotting is fun but to see hundreds of head of plains game would be so cool.

Shane