I Hope you enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed taking them....

"Going to the mountains is going home." John Muir

. . . "To him who has once tasted the reckless independence, the haughty self-reliance, the sense of irresponsible freedom, which the forest life engenders, civilization thenceforth seems flat and stale. Its pleasures are insipid, its pursuits wearisome, its conventionalities, duties, and mutual dependence alike tedious and disgusting. The entrapped wanderer grows fierce and restless, and pants for breathing-room. His path, it is true, was choked with difficulties, but his body and soul were hardened to meet them; it was beset with dangers, but these were the very spice of his life, gladdening his heart with exulting self-confidence, and sending the blood through his veins with a livelier current. The wilderness, rough, harsh, and inexorable, has charms more potent in their seductive influence than all the lures of luxury and sloth. And often he on whom it has cast its magic finds no heart to dissolve the spell, and remains a wanderer and an Ishmaelite to the hour of his death."..............Francis Parkman

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Updated as often as time and adventures allow......Enjoy!!!!

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Lochsa

Kayaker, Lochsa

Bear Grass, Lochsa

Wildflower, Lochsa

Bear Grass, Lochsa

Wildflower, Lochsa

A sea of Camas in Bloom, Clearwater National Forest

Bull Moose in the Spring, Clearwater National Forest


Camas in Bloom, Clearwater National Forest

Sunset over the Boise Valley, from Bogus Basin Road

Blue Heron, Fenn Pond, Selway


Blackhawk Fly Over, National Guard Range Near Boise


Mule Deer, Owyhee Country of Idaho


Grouse


Gospel Hump Wilderness

Steelhead Running Selway Falls, April 2009


Steelhead Running Selway Falls, April 2009







Wildflowers, Meadow Creek, Selway


Selway Geese


Selway Geese


Scruffy Spring Whitetail


Cougar and Wildflowers, Lochsa


Clearwater River Sunset


Anderson Butte


Big Canyon


Old Truck in Mountains above the South Fork of the Salmon.


Bear Grass on Coolwater


Sunset over the Eldorado, Clearwater National Forest

Selway River


Fall Camp, Obia Cabin, Fish Creek, Lochsa


Mcomas Meadows


Sunset over the Eldorado, Clearwater National Forest

Snags in the Nezperce National Forest Backcountry


Burnt Knob Lake


Back Country view from Burnt Knob Lookout


Fog rolling out of Seven Mile Canyon



Hiding Grouse, Selway


Christmas Quail

Photo by Connie Cox

Elk, Gospel Hump Wilderness


Chipmunk, Clearwater National Forest


Grouse


Caterpillar on Huckleberry Bush


Backside of the Craigs from Big Fog Mountain

Bald Eagle, Clearwater National Forest


Moose Stare down, Deer Creek Reservoir

Cow Elk Wintering on the Selway

Canadian Goose on the Selway

Birds enjoying their perch above Fenn Pond, Selway