Went on a hike yesterday to finally try the North Tongue River.
The "trail" on the map is little more than where cattle walk but you can easily see geographic details (e.g. hills, ridges etc.) To understand where you are. It's about a 1.5 mile hike down to the river. Very hot day but it got hazy like crazy from wildfire smoke - not sure from where but there's nothing on my wildfire map. Canada?
When I got down to the river it was pulverized by thousands of footprints of cattle and cowpies everywhere of course. My annoyance with the hypocrisy regarding conservation continues to mount when I see all kinds of restrictions put on humans (e.g. where you can camp, hike etc.) While allowing cattle to massively trample and eat vegetation all while pooping and peeing right next to or even in rivers and streams. Imagine the ecoli levels?
Plenty of water in the river but turbidity was much higher than other streams in the area. Only caught one small brookie and got one other strike. Will test other parts of North Tongue River as it's supposed to be the premier stream up here.
WY signs continue to amuse:
Camping is open May to September so long as you don't camp?
Very hot today 80 degrees which feels like 95 in the sun. Grateful to have this stretch of warm and dry weather however.
Will visit Steamboat Point today and return to my new campsite tonight.
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