Well, I hear that... I guess I was defining it a bit differently. In that context, you won't hear me arguing that a place with all the amenities of an RV park is backcountry.

Green Hornet wrote:You mean the "BOONIES" Where if you screw up you bend over and kiss your ass goodbye. Lions, Tigers and Bears! Oh My

Can't tell wether you're joking, but that definitely made me laugh. If that's the boonies, I guess that's where I belong

denalipilot wrote:

Green Hornet wrote:You mean the "BOONIES" Where if you screw up you bend over and kiss your ass goodbye. Lions, Tigers and Bears! Oh My

Can't tell wether you're joking, but that definitely made me laugh. If that's the boonies, I guess that's where I belong

Nothing wrong with a good laugh
One mans nightmare is another man's paradise. It is all about your mindset and how prepared you are to adapt.
Humor has gotten me through situations I wasn't prepared for in any way, shape, or means.
Believe me when the proverbial shit hits the fan you better see the funny side so you don't have your day FUBAR(ed).
Where is Kato when you need him Green Hornet - out

For me it's about the fishing.... I go to Idaho to fly fish..... Flying is the fun part of it all and the challenging part too. Living in SO Kal, you don't get to do much fly fishing due to a lack of free flowing streams... Yeah I could go to the sierras by car and fish along with a million other tourists but screw that. I fly to some pretty remote places in Idaho to fish. Mostly I don't see anyone all day long till I get back to JC. I know the fishing in Alaska is by far the best in North America but I don't have enough off time to go there. It's a two day each way trip for me so Idaho and Montana will have to do for a few more years....And any time I can land and depart on non pavement is a plus for me and flying down a drainage looking at canyon walls on both sides of me is a rarity few Americans can enjoy. We're all Jeep Drivers here and anytime you can use your four wheel drive you should cherish the oportunity.. . You alaskans are spoiled with all that wilderness, and I say that with envy...

iceman wrote:For me it's about the fishing.... I go to Idaho to fly fish..... Flying is the fun part of it all and the challenging part too. Living in SO Kal, you don't get to do much fly fishing due to a lack of free flowing streams... Yeah I could go to the sierras by car and fish along with a million other tourists but screw that. I fly to some pretty remote places in Idaho to fish. Mostly I don't see anyone all day long till I get back to JC. I know the fishing in Alaska is by far the best in North America but I don't have enough off time to go there. It's a two day each way trip for me so Idaho and Montana will have to do for a few more years....And any time I can land and depart on non pavement is a plus for me and flying down a drainage looking at canyon walls on both sides of me is a rarity few Americans can enjoy. We're all Jeep Drivers here and anytime you can use your four wheel drive you should cherish the oportunity.. . You alaskans are spoiled with all that wilderness, and I say that with envy...

Iceman
Next season I'd sure like some pointers on the fly fishing if you don't mind the company? Green Hornet

iceman wrote:For me it's about the fishing.... I go to Idaho to fly fish.....

Yes! In fact I may go directly to Moose Creek this year.

iceman wrote:For me it's about the fishing.... I go to Idaho to fly fish..... Flying is the fun part of it all and the challenging part too. Living in SO Kal, you don't get to do much fly fishing due to a lack of free flowing streams... Yeah I could go to the sierras by car and fish along with a million other tourists but screw that. I fly to some pretty remote places in Idaho to fish. Mostly I don't see anyone all day long till I get back to JC. I know the fishing in Alaska is by far the best in North America but I don't have enough off time to go there. It's a two day each way trip for me so Idaho and Montana will have to do for a few more years....And any time I can land and depart on non pavement is a plus for me and flying down a drainage looking at canyon walls on both sides of me is a rarity few Americans can enjoy. We're all Jeep Drivers here and anytime you can use your four wheel drive you should cherish the oportunity.. . You alaskans are spoiled with all that wilderness, and I say that with envy...

Iceman------ I have another video that when I get time and get it ready I will post. It is of a trip down the Middle fork of the Salmon River, on my way into and a landing at the Flying "B" Ranch. It will be a longer video as I want to share a little of the flavor of flying down the canyon and seeing those canyon walls you spoke of. I will try to post that by the end of the week. Bob

sure Bill glad to have company... I hope to go about a week or two later this summer as last summer the creeks were too high for good fishing. Moose creek was raging as were the big rivers. I wanted to hit Wilson bar but never made it there either . Elk City was slow but I did catch some trout , rather small though... Best I did this last summer was in the pond at Sulphur Creek during a hatch. I matched the hatch and laid into some 20 inch trout there. I know it's a stocked pond but the fight they put on was worth it since the streams weren't producing like in the past years. that pond is loaded with big fish and if you hit a fly hatch and have something in your fly boxes to match you are in for a great time.... I caught 6 all told until a thunder storm forced me into the lodge for dinner and to wait out the passing of the storm to return to JC. Maybe I'll try Shearer again or soldier Bar or Dixie... Dixie has a small stream with wild rainbows in the 10 -12 inch range... Small but what a fight they put up..... Didn't go to upper loon this year but it is consistant every year..... Man I'm getting melancholy just thinking about going again....

you know, denali is right. but, for us always been here idahoans, j.c.
is just another little stop. hot showers rock when its 23 deg in august...
we should all spend a night or two on soldier, or at thomas, or at
upper loon, or god forbid that closed strip in between upper and lower
loon, to appreciate what j.c. is all about. the super-cub crowd really
needed it this last june when they tipped over a buch of birds all
week long. everywhere from dewey to mccall on the pavement...!
j.c. is definitely a nice place to patch up your ride...!

and it isn't for everyone to say the least. Lets not forget that fine 206 that wound up in the trees during the BCP fly in ... scattering the entire contingent of bac C a H'ers seated under Bruce's wing....

is that the pic i saw of the bird nose first into the trees on the south
end and then on a trailer headed to mccall...?
what happened on that one, the "groomed fairway" spook the 206?

jomac wrote:is that the pic i saw of the bird nose first into the trees on the south
end and then on a trailer headed to mccall...?
what happened on that one, the "groomed fairway" spook the 206?

Yes that's the one... He roared in from about a thousand feet over the threshold diving down to tree level and then slammed it on bouncing down the runway till the last bounce bent the gear and sent him off to the right, fortunately for the a holers who were running like rats leaving a sinking ship. I was off fishing so I missed the whole thing arriving about a half hour after it happened....

evidently the thing had just been overhauled only days before the trip to JC and had about 5 hours on it when he left for JC.

It was a 182.

right .... I knew that