December 7 2011
There are few places in the United States that offer solitude in the truest sense of the word. Even on many vacations that tout “getting away from it all” you may still find yourself within wireless internet range updating your Facebook status or responding to urgent emails. Even vacations that take you far off the [...]
November 9 2011
We were headed south along the winding Salmon River en route to Stanley, Idaho, when we caught our first glimpse of the peaks of the Sawtooth Mountains. A few bends in the road later and we were entering Lower Stanley, which offered a full view of the mountains, the river, and the valley. It is [...]
May 19 2009
Sawtooth & Alpine Lakes: Round trip to Sawtooth Lake – 10 miles Round trip to Alpine Lake - 8 miles Intermediate hiking and moderately strenuous This is a not to be missed hike in the Sawtooth Mountains that includes everything you would want to see on a hike in the mountains. The trail starts at [...]
May 19 2009
One of the greatest joy’s of owning a Fly Shop is in helping visitor’s to Central Idaho learn to fish our incredible water’s. For over 35 year’s we have been fishing these water’s to determine the best gear to use, whether it be floating the Middle Fork of the Salmon River with Solitude River Trips, [...]
February 22 2009
The Middle Fork of the Salmon River is among forty nine other venues around the world that you must “fly fish before you die” – at least according to author Chris Santella, which features the river in his book, Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die: “The Middle Fork of the Salmon – framed [...]