Tag Archives: photos

Fishing the Lost Terrain

Posted on May 6, 2019 by rivertoprambles

I’ve got this notion of a “lost terrain” and think I might discover it through my wanderings. Hiking with a walking stick or fishing with an artificial fly, I imagine there’s a special place that’s close at hand, mysterious but … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged fishing, hiking, home, landscape, lost terrain, nature, photos, poetry, Thoreau, wildness, writing | 14 Comments

A Different Kind of Fish

Posted on November 21, 2017 by rivertoprambles

I’m gonna keep this short because I’m on the road to Virginia. My title for the post does not refer to a species other than the usual salmonid that you might encounter here, but to a wild brown trout, modest … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged brown trout, Captain Beefheart, climate change, environment, F.E. Thomas bamboo, individualism, music, nature, nowhere man, nymph fishing, photos, recovery, Spring Creek, upstate fishing, writing | 16 Comments

Double Focus

Posted on September 15, 2017 by rivertoprambles

Someone recently asked if I could do a small post on the Adirondack fishing scene of late because he hadn’t been able to get up into the mountains for a while. I thought it over and decided I could probably … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adirondack Park, Adirondacks, balance, camping, environment, fly-fishing, Glacier National Park, meditation, nature, photos, Rocky Mountains, travel, West, West Branch Ausable River, wilderness | 23 Comments

We-Who-Went-to-the-Sun (and-Weren’t-Eclipsed!)

Posted on September 1, 2017 by rivertoprambles

“A national park highway should have not only fine natural scenery, but exhibitions of ingenious engineering skill. It should have at least a few tunnels, galleries, terraces, bridges, hairpin turns, and all that sort of thing– to produce the surprises, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged camping, engineering, exploration, fly-fishing, Glacier National Park, glaciers, Going-to-the-Sun-Road, hiking, Montana, national parks, nature, photos, Rocky Mountains, Sun, travel, Tully Lake | 17 Comments

Of Grizzly Bears and Cutthroat Trout

Posted on August 21, 2017 by rivertoprambles

[In which Yellowstone National Park becomes a focus in the 4th part of my “Top of the Rockies” travelogue. I hope that you enjoy.] The wide sagebrush spaces of western Wyoming finally narrowed in a series of canyons near the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged birds, camping, cutthroat, environment, exploration, fly-fishing, grizzly bear, Henry's Fork, hiking, nature, osprey, photos, Snake River, Soda Butte Creek, travel, Wyoming, Yellowstone | 18 Comments

Dinosaurs on the Green

Posted on August 18, 2017 by rivertoprambles

It was a cool day with light rain showers as friends from Salt Lake City joined us for a cold-desert romp outside of Vernal, Utah. Emma and Brendan joined Brent, Catherine, Leighanne, and yours truly for a visit to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged birds, canyon, desert, Dinosaur, exploration, Flaming Gorge, fly-fishing, Green River, Harper's Corner, hiking, national monument, nature, photos, Sounds of Silence, travel, Utah, Yampa River | 16 Comments

Brief

Posted on May 3, 2017 by rivertoprambles

When the human world seems absolutely maddening (the insanity triggered by such trifles as fidget spinners with kids, the rush for smartphone upgrades in adults, and the latest threats to the economy, environment and world peace from the fools who guide our destiny), I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged backyard, beauty, brevity, brief, brook trout, environment, fly-fishing, humanity, morels, nature, photos, red fox, sanity, small streams, Spring, work | 23 Comments

Blue Ridge Buffer (Pt. 2), No Plan B

Posted on April 14, 2017 by rivertoprambles

1. I love Monday mornings in the Blue Ridge, especially before the hikers, dogs and fishermen start to activate the paths inside Shenandoah National Park. The sun is out; the temperatures are headed for the 70s; Louisiana water-thrushes are at song; the violets and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Blue Ridge Mountains, brook trout, fishing, hiking, North Fork Moormans, photos, Shenandoah National Park, Skyline Drive, travel, Virginia | 26 Comments

So, How Was the Fishing?

Posted on March 30, 2017 by rivertoprambles

1. Sometimes when there’s nothing new to say or to add to the overall blogging compost, I like to hear that ageless question directed at a rambler on the trail or in the water: “So how was the fishing?” Hearing it, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged brook trout, Cattaraugus creek tribs, environment, etiquette, fishing taverns, fly-fishing, forest, friendship, nothing to say, Pennsylvania Wilds, philosophy, photos, small stream fishing, steelhead, stonefly, western New York, wild, Zoar Valley | 20 Comments

Winter Rose

Posted on December 30, 2016 by rivertoprambles

Since the sad news I reported on in the last post, I’ve been happily wrapped up in a wide variety of holiday activities. I even got in a couple hours of fly-fishing in Shenandoah National Park. I spent a week in Washington … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged brook trout, death, family, fly-fishing, holidays, Life, marriage, nature, photos, Rose, Rose River, Shenandoah Nat'l Park, travel, Virginia, Washington D.C., wild, winter | 22 Comments