A few days ago I mentioned how impressed we were to see the amount of snow still down in the southern part of Yellowstone over the past few days. South of Old Faithful bison were still choosing the road to mosey. Looking at today’s snowpack maps from NOHRSC there’s still a hell of a lot […]
Montana Snowpack
Still on the road playing hooky with She Who Must Be Obeyed in the mountain West. By virtue of an ambitious plan to head back home to Montana for a few days we’ve had the pleasure of seeing more than a handful of western waterways up close and personal. I can’t remember how long it’s […]
Overall things look a bit better than a week ago. While river flows are screaming, the widespread, heavy soaking rains haven’t been falling lately. Even with showers forecast for much of the area the next few days, most folks don’t feel like they need to finish the ark they started a few weeks ago. Snowpack […]
Speaking with friends and enemies back home in Montana, it’s painfully clear that winter was painfully long for most of the state (you can see snow is still falling this morning in some areas). It’s also crystal clear that flood waters are doing much more than inconveniencing fly fishers; parts of the state are being […]