Now back in Idaho after nine years in exile on the east coast. Happy to
be back in God's Country. Hope to stick around a while.

Favorite Quote:
"In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so
spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural
state should be considered an obligation."

Senator Frank Church - Idaho 1968

Stomping Grounds:

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St. Joe Wild and Scenic River - Shoshone County, Idaho - July 2007

Red Ives Peak - St. Joe Mountains - Shoshone County, Idaho - July 2007

Cherry Basin in Douglas Creek Headwaters - St. Joe Mountains - Shoshone County, Idaho - July 2007

Bronson's Meadows - St. Joe Mountains - Shoshone County, Idaho - July 2007

Five Lakes Butte - Clearwater Mountains - Clearwater County, Idaho - July 2007

Lion Creek - Boundary County, Idaho - July 2007

RIVER RELIGION

Some people channel

Deepthink the riverflow

stay out of the rocky

Ripple-driven shallows.

No limbs or laterals

They stay with the mainwater

As if it were a matter

Of morals not a mosaic

Of undeclared principals:

Laptime, swirls & eddies.

It's right to be centered

No wrinkles like bad skinfit

No assortment of illusions

On memory's rack.

The faithful raft not to drown

Find the safest way down

Jujuing watergods

With bottomless hope

& never-ending fear.

All camptalk & riverrhetoric

As if it were homilies

Not hydraulics that got them here.

The sinner, save his soul

Is out there somewhere

Playing in a hole.

--William Studebaker