After 4 straight nights of rain with a 5th tonight, I'm crashing in a hotel in Craig CO. A daily passing thunder shower is one thing but we're talking 4-6 hours of continuous rain each night.
Hot shower, restaurant food. Olympics- nice change.
I had an awesome campsite at Vaughn Lake for two nights. I was so taken with it, I thought I might stay for weeks. Build me a little cabin with a porch do I can enjoy the View!
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| My campsite at Vaugh Lake. I imagine this is what the garden of Eden looks like. |
[ASIDE] My first encounter with the Yampa River was a complete bust: trickle of water in a hot valley with practically no public access. Upon further review, those are the headwaters. The good stuff is further downstream. I will give it another go tomorrow.
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Description said "you can fish for rainbow, book, and cutthroat trout. So I got myself down to the lake pronto but it was one of the alpine lake disappointments. They might have said you could also fish for tarpon or lobster.
Vaughn campsite looks Garden of Eden perfect yup! Too bad about the rain driving you crazy. Time to refine your targets - somebody somewhere knows where there are wadeable trout rivers with no people. Maybe Siberia? Private water you pay for access to?
ReplyDeleteI read an article on "reverse migration" for Alaskan salmon. Water temps are so warm fish are turning around heading back to sea. Maybe water where you are is too hot for trout.
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