Wife and I were headed for the Okanogan a couple weeks ago just as that storm was coming in. Forecast said it had a bullseye for where we were headed, so we changed course and headed for the Wallowas in NE Oregon - a place we’d never been before.
My wife doesn’t fish, so this was going to be a casual camping/sightseeing trip and a much needed escape for both of us. I did bring my favorite nearly 100 year old rod and reel combo along as I usually do, because you never know.
As it turned out, that storm spread way further south than was forecast so we changed course again and skipped the Wallowas and headed for the dry desert. It kept raining, but it was beautiful and green everywhere we went.
We found a relatively dry campsite somewhere in the Blue mountains.
We made our way to and camped at the Craters of the Moon in Idaho, where the lava flows are only 2,000~ years old - unlike the much older flows we see in the Columbia basin. The sun came out the next morning and exposed a mass of high desert wildflowers. Strange and awesome landscape with pumice, ash, cinder cones and Limber Pines and I recommend seeing it!
Sun stayed with us so we headed up into the Sawtooths where we climbed a high pass and got snowed on. Lots more wildflowers, and we passed by some high water.
Round one… fishing next in round two….
My wife doesn’t fish, so this was going to be a casual camping/sightseeing trip and a much needed escape for both of us. I did bring my favorite nearly 100 year old rod and reel combo along as I usually do, because you never know.
As it turned out, that storm spread way further south than was forecast so we changed course again and skipped the Wallowas and headed for the dry desert. It kept raining, but it was beautiful and green everywhere we went.
We found a relatively dry campsite somewhere in the Blue mountains.
We made our way to and camped at the Craters of the Moon in Idaho, where the lava flows are only 2,000~ years old - unlike the much older flows we see in the Columbia basin. The sun came out the next morning and exposed a mass of high desert wildflowers. Strange and awesome landscape with pumice, ash, cinder cones and Limber Pines and I recommend seeing it!
Sun stayed with us so we headed up into the Sawtooths where we climbed a high pass and got snowed on. Lots more wildflowers, and we passed by some high water.
Round one… fishing next in round two….
