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No - the El Torito salsas I am referring to are all refrigerated with a limited shelf life. The fresh salsas they usually have on hand are salsa verde, salsa roja, salsa roja tatemada, salsa habenero and salsa de molcajete.

Salsa probably is a separate thread but I will bite. In Oregon, we have El Torito Supermarkets. When they opened one in Lincoln City, the town officially became awesome. They have an entire cooler stocked with a half dozen or so varieties of their fresh salsa. I like them all but the salsa...

I'm also not a fan of the vinegar side of the various hot sauces. I've been using Pico Pica Mexican Style Hot Sauce for fifty plus years - it's been around much longer than that. I also like Pico Pica Extra Hot which has a hotter, chipotle spin on their regular hot sauce. I have to order the...

My buddies say that boats are required to stay at least 250 feet from shore anglers. Plus once the wind comes up, Pyramid can become jackass in a heartbeat. It's a big lake with its own environment. I saw a few the days were were there - but only 2 or 3.

I have lots of buddies that fish Pyramid regularly and @ifsteve describes it perfectly. I fished Pyramid a few years ago for the first time. I went with a buddy and my grandson and we fished 2 1/2 days, caught a few, nothing huge. Chase outfished my buddy and I so between that and spending...

If I recall correctly - the releases were mostly made to see if juvenile springers would be able to move through Upper Klamath Lake to the fish ladder at Link Dam. This occurred in 2023 before the dams were removed. The ladder at Link Dam was not designed to pass juvenile salmonids so it will...

I pulled this excerpt from the Review of 2025 Ocean Salmon Fisheries document referencing last fall's return of chinook above the old Iron Gate Dam site. The escapement to natural spawning areas within the entire watershed was 39,860 fall chinook adults, which was 205 percent of the preseason...

Sorry for the hijacking but this discussion reminds me of a true story. Early in my career, I was the assistant manager of a large state wildlife area in the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta. We had an outhouse contract which maintained about 15 or so outhouses year around on our property for...

Ripley, our 8 year old goofy springer reminding me that she needs her morning walk.

To sort of dovetail with Brian's request - here's a link to the first PFMC document as part of the salmon regulation setting process. There will be three more documents produced between now and the end of the process for 2026 (early April). I found parts of it an interesting read as it does...

Maybe SculpinSwinger can provide a current update on veg - he did mention saltgrass which grows throughout the low, alkali swales in the Owens Valley as well as around Mono Lake. Owens Lake is a saline, closed basin so other than the freshwater deltas, I suspect there isn't much growing around...

We are over 11" for month so far (9" is average for February). This morning's area forecast discussion from NWS Portland suggests that the rain will start tapering off this week.

While we lived in Independence, the southerly winds would occasionally move a large cloud of alkali dust off Owens Lake. The locals called it "Keeler Fog". During one exceptionally wet fall, a large portion of Owens Lake flooded and tens of thousands of migratory waterbirds used it. Myself...

Thanks so much for adding more images! Does your family own a home in Cartago?

Robins showed up en masse in our Oregon Coast neighborhood this past week. Our big mixed flocks of scaup on Devils Lake have for the most part departed and the ones that are still around have started pairing up.

We hunted chukars all along the west slope and the crest of the Inyo's. My favorite spot was up top near Side Hill Springs which was close to 10,000 feet in elevation. There was old mine equipment at the tralhead to Seep Hole Springs off Mazourka Canyon Road. If I recall correctly, it was...

Oh boy, now I am really getting flashbacks. We used to deer hunt in the Panamint Mountains prior to it coming under the umbrella of Death Valley National Park (1994). Do you have more images to share?

Thanks for sharing those photos - I think it's really cool that you've had such a long tradition of going there. The Owens Valley is truly God's Country in just about every way. I lived in Independence from 1981-1983 and it was my first duty station with CA DFW. One of our favorite fisheries...

I started my career in the Owens Valley - such a beautiful part of the world. Great horned owls are vicious predators. I once had one make a low pass on my weenie dog puppy. Fortunately, I walked her out into the backyard and was standing right near her when it happened or she might have...

There's a video weir at the fish ladder located at the evil Winchester Dam on the North Umpqua. On February 8th, 924 fish passed through which is an all time record daily count for the facility. The current return is over 3500 fish (almost entirely wild). Here's a link to the live stream...