Idaho - heaven on earth?

[CT10ring]

@CT10ring
Hey Bill I’m about done working on my cabin up here, how’s yours coming along ? Are you back home now ?

I'm back here in central ID.
My cabin is mostly "done". It's kinda odd, like me...
Post some pix of yours if you'd like.
As you are a builder, I'd expect good things are happening with yours.

 

[CT10ring]

Apologies to all offended with my clumsy religious reference. I type before I think.
Idaho is still a learning experience. Fine people here.

 

[CT10ring]

The commonality is that all governments will, in some way, take as much money as they can and will spend it in ways you didn't want. It's so far out of control now it is beyond recovery.
I was born in Idaho (Moscow) and spent a good portion of my life in Potlatch, Harvard, Kendrick, and Juliaetta. My wife is also a Potlatch native. I also grew up in Wyoming, BC, and Alberta. We moved around some. Spent one summer living in a camp up at Cold Springs Creek, on the North Fork.
I still love the country but, man, it's getting crowded now. Grandparents on my father's side lived and died in Boise. Mother's side in Naples and in Harvard.
A couple years ago, we hauled the trailer from south to north, in early March. Drove up the old Whitebird grade, just for the fun of it. I still like the state.
Today, we live in Canada, just north of Eureka MT. I have 1 brother in Pullman and the other is in Naples. Wife's family still in Potlatch/Palouse and surrounding area.
When I was a kid, about 60 years ago, I recall being up at Laird Park, north of Harvard. I had fished my way up from Harvard, on the Palouse River (10 miles of fishing was not uncommon for me, back then) and was just getting ready to head back home. I was standing on the dam, just resting, when a couple in their fifties (old to me, back then) walked out on the dam and commented on how beautiful the country was there. I looked down the river and it occurred to me; it really was! I asked where they were from, and they were from New Jersey. I felt a little proud that people from the other side of the country could so appreciate the place where I lived. WH

Thanks for that recollection. You did move around, growing up!

 

[JFrank]

I'm back here in central ID.
My cabin is mostly "done". It's kinda odd, like me...
Post some pix of yours if you'd like.
As you are a builder, I'd expect good things are happening with yours.

My cabin is very small but we enjoy the simplicity and the wife wanted wood tones

 

[CT10ring]

Here's ID: My neighbor, Heather, w tag GMU 36A. Elk.
I was along to bring down meat. Bowery Guard Station.
She missed; but it was dark, cold and very windy @ 8500'
7mm-08. Shooting off a backpack. Connected 2 days later.

 

[CT10ring]

My cabin is very small but we enjoy the simplicity and the wife wanted wood tones

beautiful!

 

[JFrank]

Here's ID: My neighbor, Heather, w tag GMU 36A.
I was along to bring down meat. Bowery Guard Station.
She missed; but it was dark, cold and very windy @ 8500'
7mm-08.
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Hell yeah !

 

[Brians356]

Here's ID: My neighbor, Heather, w tag GMU 36A. Elk.
I was along to bring down meat. Bowery Guard Station.
She missed; but it was dark, cold and very windy @ 8500'
7mm-08. Shooting off a backpack. Connected 2 days later.
View attachment 1378811

But ... where's the tree stand or blind?
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[CT10ring]

But ... where's the tree stand or blind?
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Heather hunts elk on her 2 hind feet.

 

[Big Mc]

Hello, fellow shooters-

After living for many years in the northeast US (yes there are some things to like there), I retired
and took a chance - bought a cabin in central Idaho. yeah - its dam remote. Just want to say how great it is to be here, and if you like to shoot, be among like minded souls, this may be the place.

Got a haircut - the gal barber, 25, shoots a 7mm-08. Elk tags - done.
The Wells Fargo branch manager, gal, shoots elk w a .243. My neighbor is a guide.

Got new tires for winter and the fellow installing tires is a serious pistol and LR rifle shooter. Deputy Sheriff also getting new tires - rocking 2 nice sidearms. No blueing left on his 1911 slide, I noticed.

I'm south of Challis ID, on the East Fork of the Salmon River. I have stepped back to a time to when men and women were and are self sufficient. If you are nearby, I'd be glad to hear from you.

Here's a pic from my road.

Only view like that here in southTexas is on a post card. Like to see the same shot in December. Tommy Mc

 

[JFrank]

Heather hunts elk on her 2 hind feet.

She is an inspiration to all hunters. We have a couple of friends - Bill and Carol at eighty years old do not hunt or trap any more but have been helping me get through my clumsy time of learning how to hunt. Carol has shot and killed 20 bears and ran a trap line and shot a moose.

 

[Brians356]

I'm within 3 miles of Speer, never got the taste for red beer though. Have had bite size at Tomato Bros., still need to try Bojacks.

Here's an update in the Lewiston Morning Tribune on bite-size steak in The Valley. You should be able to read at least one article without logging in.

Bite-size steak: the signature dish of the region

Exactly who developed bite-size steak and where it was first served is a matter of debate.

www.lmtribune.com

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