Mount Rainier National Park, Summerland Wonderland Trail Similitude1-2 Hike Hiking in Mount Rainier National Park is always fun. Feeling a little more energic this morning, must be the blue skies. Comfortable in my hang out graphic hoodie and trout patterned leggings, the first mile breezed by. Wonderland Trail circumvents the base of Mount […]
Feeling the Energy and Beauty of Mount Rainier Mount Rainier has a special energy, like all our National Parks. Some more that others, I have felt different energies beside, before and behind me. Those bug me a bit, harder to pinpoint. Be prepared and stay aware of your surrounding at all times in […]
Cheesman Canyon Similitude-1 Hike Along the South Platte River On a sunny Sunday morning arrived at the Cheesman Canyon Trailhead for a loop hike of exercise and photography, without looking at a map or having one did an 8.01 mile loop hike with 2.5 miles of road hiking. I started out this layer, […]
Tying a Olive Micro Wooly Bugger Personally I have found trout really enjoy a Micro Wooly Bugger tied on a jig hook with a red bead. I have been tying these wooly buggers in a size 14. I find tying wooly buggers relaxing and catching trout exhilarating. The easiest way to put […]
Hiking Washington State on Boulder River Trail Similitude-1 Boulder River Trail was a last minute Sunday morning type of thing, getting out the door around eleven am. Grabbing extra coffee, water, brown trout fishing hoodie and my pack out the door we went. Distance 6.24 mi Ascent 872 ft Total Time 4h […]
Wooly Buggers Patterns, Tying, Fly Fishing Approaches to Fish Them I have a couple of boxes in my fly fishing gear of wooly buggers Patterns. I have several favorite rods, lines and approaches to fishing wooly buggers from a small stream to a spring run-off river. Still water is a whole different deal […]
Direction, No Destination Known just a Drive By Shooting Day starts with direction. No destination known. Heading south on US-191 Montana. How the world looks before morning coffee! Or after a weekend with Hunter Thompson. Had a hard time getting the world into focus this morning, in Drive by US-191 Angus […]
Hiking the State of Washington on Boulder River Trail in Similitude 1-2 In this year of strangeness or as Jim Morrison sang about on the Album Strange Days, people are strange especially in times of chaos. On this damp Washington afternoon hiking in my Freestone Cutthroat Fishing Hoodie, fits just loose enough breathable […]
Driving through space and time observing moments never experienced before. But then all moments have never been experienced before, or have they? Enjoying the landscape as the fields rise, fall and drift off Listening to the stories of when the trees were young and the ground freshly tilled Still standing stout […]
. Grand Hotel in Big Timber, Montana on a spring morning on a drive by Looking down main street from US-191 in Drive by US-191 Similitude-3 Big Timber Bakery was worth the stop, I recommend stopping by, the scones were great About 10 miles down Old Boulder Road At around 30 miles […]
Caddis Flies a Trout’s Mainstay on the Food Chain For those who are unaware, Caddis flies are one of the most important and necessary aquatic insects in the country. They are also the one most imitated by fly fishers when they want their angling adventure to be successful. Found around the world in all […]
Hunter FryingPan Wilderness Similitude-1 fall hike on Lost Man Trail Last hike on Lost Man Trail was two years ago mid-July a wet summer’s day blanketed in wildflowers of every shape and color. It now a mid-September day with morning ice and some snow left from last winter. This past winter, spring and […]
