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Archive for December, 2007

Last set of Xmas photos

Posted in Family, Ohio, photos, tagged , , , on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

We’ll be back to fishing posts this week, but for now just enjoy my bizarre family: 

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More Christmas Photos

Posted in Ohio, photos, tagged , , , on December 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Enjoying the time I’ve got here in Ohio with the fam. No fishing — too much water in the rivers. Events have conspired to make me consider my mortality lately, but other than that, not much of note has occurred. Enjoy the Christmas portraits and have a good xmas tomorrow.

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Photos: Holiday Cheer 2007 NY

Posted in Back East, photos, tagged , , , , on December 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Well, it’s all over. In the course of about 18 hours last week, KP and I closed on a house, moved in (thanks to Wild Bill and The Mule) and cleaned our old place out. We wrapped up around 2am Friday morning, and hopped a flight to NYC two hours later. We’re currently decompressing upstate, [...]

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West side fishing: Rotting salmon, tangled forest

Posted in Oregon Fishing, salmon, tagged , , , , , on December 12, 2007 | 5 Comments »

For day two of my brother’s trip we went on another steelhead odyssey, this time to the hallowed wilderness rainforest of Western Oregon. We braced ourselves with a flask of Jameson at 7am, preparing to tackle the hellacious hike to access this unnamed fishery.
Unfortunately, due to flooding, inclement weather and road closures, we didn’t even [...]

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Fear and Loathing in Kimberly, Oregon

Posted in Eastern Oregon, Oregon Fishing, tagged , , , , , , on December 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Last weekend my brother came to Oregon to chase sea-run salmonids — leaving straight from his job in Manhattan — JFK to PDX — and arriving at 11pm. I picked him up and headed to The Dalles. I assumed the West Side was blown out — better see what’s happening in the desert, so we [...]

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Struggling to find a better morning routine

Posted in eugene, hiking, tagged , , , , , on December 7, 2007 | 6 Comments »

Yesterday I woke up early and decided to go hiking before work. My plan was to start up the hill in the early morning, get a little exercise and perspective to start the day. But the logistics of it didn’t work:
 At 5:35 my alarm goes off — damn it’s really dark at 5:35. I check sunrise on [...]

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Terry Tempest Williams on writing

Posted in books, tagged , , , , on December 5, 2007 | 4 Comments »

I’m currently reading Writing Naturally by David Petersen, and while I’m not crazy about his style, I am getting a lot out of the book. One of the things I found was a selection of a graduate school paper by Terry Tempest Williams. The paper is called “Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Place” an unpublished [...]

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Salmon biting at Smith River Falls

Posted in Fishing, salmon, tagged , , , on December 3, 2007 | 5 Comments »

I spent the last two days standing in the pouring rain, just below Smith River Falls in the Oregon Coast Range. Despite the weather report calling for massive windstorms and rain, it really didn’t hit until late Sunday while Karl and I were on our way out of the bush.

The rain seemed to be part [...]

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