How to Waste A Month Out West....( pic heavy)

[Tentwing]

Well..................... First you drive into Wyoming and start up The Wind River Range which looks like this.....

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The your just driving along and up pops the Cathedral Range of the Grand Tetons


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The you decide to spend the Evening in the Tetons and the view from your camp at Jenny Lake at the base of the Tetons looks like this just before you drift off to sleep.......
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You get up the next days and your wife take you on a trip to fish the Snake River where she does this...........

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...........and on a spring creek that flows into the Snake.....You do this..........
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Do i have anyone's attention yet??
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Next you drive along the BearTooth Highway.......wondering to yourself if it is as scenic as they say ..........When what appears in your windshield but?.......The Absaroka Mountains
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Then you wife tells you I've got a surprize for you ..........."We're gonna go up into the mountains on horseback for a week or so"...... ;D
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After leaving the Base Camp at 6400 feet.....We rode up to several areas during the week....Including Farley Lake in The Beartooths at just above 10,000 feet ......right at the tree line.........which looks like this.....
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Where we threw lots of these........
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.....................and caught so many of these that we got tired of casting and just started sightseeing
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After our pack trip my wife says....." I haven't seen Yellowstone in 13 years ",......sooooooo she takes me to the Lamar River Valley...........
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where we see tons of these.................
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Then she takes me over to the Yellowstone River Canyon...............where you just gotta see this.................
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Moving further west in the toward the Firehole River Basin you can fish here.
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and you might spot one of these .....................
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If you go South you can see that the park is recovering quite well from The Firestorm of 1988......The view fishing from below Lewis River Falls is now almost completely green again...........
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and while you there keep an eye out for this guy.....
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As you move west out of the park make sure to fish the Madison River.......
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cause there are lots of these.............
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you can also find lots of them here above Mesa Falls on the Henry's Fork
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.................And that is one the best ways I know to waste a month out West

..............Tentwing

[Petey]

That poor horse They should have put you on the Buffalo

All kidding aside.

Simply wow! That is all I can say. I wish I had time to spend a month doing just that. Looks like it was an absolute blast.

You guys got some great pics. Love the pictures of the cuts.

Please tell me you kept those pink harlots in your fly box. ;D

Very nice TW!

Petey

[onlymidges]

That had to be fun and that is some nice pictures. I don't know if I would have come back. Just kiddin!!! One of these days I will get out there ;D ;D ;D

Jr

[clincher]

Gary,
My first gander at your August trip. Thanks for the montage. Good for the soul and my resolve to get out west soon.

When Varmit takes a break from the fertility and posterity assurance regimen we've sworn to gittin' out west soon!

[Rockyraccoon]

That was an awesome photoblog of your trip TW. Loved it and am happy to see you guys having some fun playing.

[rbaileydav]

was jonesin for some western scenery so i went back and drooled on the pics from this thread thanks Gary i needed that .

DD

[Petey]

Well, I saw DD posted in here. Wondered what was up and came over to look on my lunch break. Haven't been able to log off of it since. My boss will probably send a bill for my time spent here, because there isn't going to be anything get done but a lot of day dreaming.