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I agree that I would likely benefit by eating a little lower on the food chain than I do, but this notion is crazy. Let's say we all convert to veganism. Then science advances and determines that many fruits and vegetables are actually sentient beings. What then? We all dedicate ourselves...

Funny me, I thought a quickie was like a nooner. Glad to read a fishing report instead.

After Escalante, I drove across Nevada on America's "loneliest highway" Hwy 50. Must be 5 or 6 passes through desert mountains. Wish I had pictures of the vast nothingness. Except it's not really nothing, not counting endless sagebrush. The reason for driving this route was to get to S. Lake...

My campsite for cowboy camping under the stars: Lunch break along the small creek that runs through Death Hollow: After descending Death Hollow for 6 miles, we connected back to the Escalante River, which is merely a trickle upstream of Death Hollow. Along the way is this 400' alcove...

It began about 20 years ago with day hikes on my first visit to southern Utah. Maybe it's the dramatic contrast with my native PNW, but for whatever reason, the SW desert country has taken a hold on me. I thought it would be fun to go backpacking in the desert canyon country, but having long...

If only I can get a new battery for it.

Now I've recently read that the WDS (Washington Department of Salmon) opened the lower Skagit River to fishing for spring Chinook salmon and that the fishery would be intensively monitored by creel checkers. Then I read that the Skagit River will open early in the upper section from Rockport to...

It's always an option! As a younger angler I always retied my tippet to fly knot after landing a steelhead, thinking that the knot may have weakened from playing a fish. Yeah, but what about all those heavy limbs and branches I snagged and yarded in but didn't re-tie? Somewhere along the way...

There is another explanation. My camera battery died on day 2 of my Utah hike, so I took a few photos with my camera (long story). I mainly relied on photos from my hiking companions for the trip. I needed to get my camera and phone photos loaded onto my computer to share with the group (a...

I was away from home for two weeks, so it was nice to return and things in bloom and my garden not dead. This is a native rhodie, two plants actually. I got them as seedlings from the conservation district 20 years ago. Transplanted them when we moved into the "new" house in 2010. They're...

Unidentified, so must be some kind of foo foo fish dish. Might as well put tartar sauce on it.

I would have said mud pie.

? Inconceivable!

You did notice that the addition of flavoring was conditional for salmon that had been frozen too long, right? No, I won't be encouraging blue cheese on chicken wings or cool ranch doritios - good grief! And hey, old timer, haven't you noticed that some good wines now come in screw top bottles?

People who add rubs and other stuff to their salmon must not like the flavor of salmon. I learned to cook salmon over an alderwood fire. Admittedly, that is a very time consuming process, plus you need the right place to do it. After my divorce and moving into a townhouse, I needed an...

Jerry, sorry for your loss.

Wow! And knowing it costs $5,000 a day to fish that river! Lucky kid has no idea.

A couple signs of advanced societies: having a postal service and public libraries. Modern technology is closing the gap, but it will probably be a cold day in hell when for profit delivery services can match rural, last mile destinations.

I'll bring some firewood too.

A certain president appointed the Postmaster General specifically to fvck up the postal system with one objective being that mailed in ballots wouldn't arrive in time to be counted. Maybe other delays are just unintended consequences of the intention to fvck things up.