SURE IS GREEN IN IDAHO

[sixshot]

Took a few nice photo's today but didn't see many critters. Callshot had to return some Speer Gold Dots to Sportsmans Warehouse in Idaho Falls, thats over 100 miles if we take the highway. He had never been the back way through Bone (lived here all his 65 years) so we took off, even took his truck! We were still working on the seeds I had put in his bucket from a couple of days before so I get in a little more spitting practice on his floor again, I mixed in a few peanut hulls for good measure.
This is really remote country, once you get north of town its over 70 miles of gravel roads with maybe 3 ranchers living out there until you hit pavement again at Bone.
Because of the midday heat all the squirrels, badgers & other vermin were cooling off inside a den hole deep in the ground. I was about to starve to death when we got there, finally got to put a choke hold on a 5 Guys burger & fries & a couple of ice teas for a belly wash.
As we were leaving a nice looking gal walked in front of Steve's truck & while he was enjoying the view I reached over & honked his horn.......she probably jumped 3 feet in the air. If I read her lips right she was mouthing somehing about his ancestory....which is questionable!
We decided to take a different route home & headed east towards Jackson Hole, Wyoming. We drove along the Idaho/Wyoming border where we stopped for a square ice cream cone. The sign about the ice cream said there best day ever was over 9,000 cones & over 10,000 for a holiday weekend & these little beauties (Huckleberry) are $2.50 a scoop!
Driving towards Palisades Resevoir we stopped at my buddy Brent's summer cabin, it sits high on a mountain top overlooking the resevoir & dam. Inside is a lifetime of trophies, several nice muley bucks, 4 huge bull elk, bears, both grizzly & black bears, antelope, 2 lions, last years bull moose with my Harton 480, a life size mountain goat taken right out his back yard, only about 3,000 ft higher in elevation. Also coyotes, badgers & one Utah fisherman.....just kidding!
I took several photo's of the surrounding area, very pretty, also has a spare "cabin" that sleeps 16!
A very nice cabin.


Here I am holding a brand new toy, wish it were mine. How about a Freedom Arms model 97 in 44 special, wow, what a beauty!


Palisades Resevoir off in the distance, its about 20 miles long.


This is the backyard view, Brent took a very nice mountain goat right up at the top.


Looking north towards Swan Valley & the famous South Fork of the Snake.


Brents moose, taken with my Harton 480, one shot & the first shot he had ever fired from this gun.


Another view from upstairs.


Can you see the bull elk in full velvet across the river, he's going to be a dandy in about 2 months!


Covered 260 miles, had a great time & I got to spit a lot of sunflower seeds & a few peanut hulls in Callshots truck.

Dick

[zac0419]

Jeez, one of the first things I'm going to do when I get back to CO is take a nice long road trip north to see some of these places. That's some beautiful country up there. I imagine there's some high quality fly fishing not very far from his place. Really nice cabin.

[Ken O'Neill]

Beautiful country, Dick. Throw some dirt on Callshot's floorboards, and maybe those seeds will start next year's crop!

[Lil Dudey]

ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!

[arokcrwlr]

I like the outdoor toilet in the second pic, but I'd need a little more cover - wouldn't want to scare the wildlife.

[sixshot]

Zac, the south fork of the Snake River in the photo is world famous for big trout, lots of flyfishermen stay all summer, it was a favorite of Curt Gowdy.

arolcrwlr, its not everyplace you can get a sunburn while sitting on the toilet. ;D

[paul105]

Adding to Dick’s theme, it is the same here in Montana.

The wife and I took the dogs out in the back country a little over a week ago. It’s been an amazing spring/early summer – very green with deeper than normal snow pack.

Pictures are approx. 180 deg counter clockwise panorama with the first picture looking across a high meadow towards the east Pioneer Mountains pretty close to the town of Divide. The Big Hole River runs along the base of those mountains south of Divide for a ways before turning east where it confluences with the Beaverhead River to form the Jefferson River by the town of Twin Bridges (behind the last picture of the snow-capped peak). Ultimately, the Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin Rivers form the headwaters of the Missouri at Three Forks Montana.


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My pictures don't do justice to the beauty of this area.

Paul

[thomasmblack]

You guys just stink. I can't imagine living in country that is that beautiful.
Tom Black

[robl]

Well I live in the high desert never that lush here but fairly nice to look at out the back door this spring;

2 hour drive away;

[45colt]

Between sixshot,Paul105,and robl, you guys sure are tugging at my heart strings !
I better put Frank V in here too.
Whenever we used to go to Jamestown,Sonora,and/or Columbia (all mid 1800s mining towns),
some areas in Arizona reminds me of heading up into the hills (mountains).
What threw me when we went from Globe to Show Low,was the elk signs.Here,no elk signs,but very familiar country !