A couple weeks ago My buddy KSC and I were both able to get free and decided to get in a early spring weekend trip. We meet up in northern Nevada near the NV/ID border. The spot we had planned to hang at that we had used last year was a no go, the road still had about 3 foot snow drifts over it so we ended up trying an alternate spot I had looked at briefly last year on the way home. A small stand of aspen in a forest service campground. It worked out well and had some decent trees to work with. KSC set up his rig on the hill side above out site and I picked a spot over what was likely the tent campers opening. With the CG empty we decided to also reserve the site next to us for our fire/eating area so that the fire was a bit further away from the tarps. The wind can come up at a moments notice and we wanted to make sure no gear got damaged. We played around with some new gear I had brought out to get photos of and KSC cooked burgers for dinner.
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We hung out by the fire for a while after dark and then turned in early. In the morning I cooked up Apples with brown sugar, cinnamon, vanilla and butter which we slathered over pancakes. MMMthatsgood!
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After we ate we looked over the Guidebook to the trails in the Owyhee wilderness of Idaho. We picked a spot to check out and loaded up gear and headed north for around 80 miles. The road in was not to bad and only took us about 45 minutes to cover the 10 miles of dirt off the pavement to the trail head. We grabbed some gear and took off over the flat to the canyon rim. When we hit the rim we go the first view down into the canyon and could see that the water in the stream was flowing high and fast. I figured fishing probably would not be any good but we still wanted to explore so after a few photos we headed down the grass slopes into a side canyon that we figured we could get down easier than the scree hill sides.
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We worked our way down until we hit the creek bottom and things leveled out as we approached the main stream channel. We took a break in the shade around the scrub pine and then headed to the main steam. It was off color....flowing mud... but I tried a few casts anyway.
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The plan had been to work our way down stream about a mile to mile and a half to where this stream joins with another, follow that down for a half mile or so and then turn and climb up the canyon back to the truck. But as we started down canyon we could see we would not be able to follow along close to the stream due to the flooding stage it was at. As we worked along the steep canyon sides we began to also notice that storm clouds were brewing somewhere above the rim that we could only see a little of at time.
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We decided rather than possibly ending up in a spot we could not climb out of it was best to work our way back up the hill where we could see an exit. Most of the climb went well and we only had a few sections of scree that made thing more challenging. I sent a few rocks sliding down the hill for dozens of yards but was able to avoid getting sucked into the slide myself.
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The constant with the storms and blue sky was pretty cool and I paused for more pictures than a few times. From the rim we could see a huge panoramic view of the storm. Lightning was hitting on the south rim while we stood on the north. Walls of rain were coming down all across the desert and blue skies behind us to the north. Unfortunately camp was to the south and we figured it was getting pounded with rain.
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We ended up driving right through the center of the storm on our way back south and it was coming down hard, but as we got further south we got out of the storm and back at camp the area had only gotten a light rain storm. We set about getting the fire going and dinner cooked. We ate good again, steaks, fried potatoes with bacon and I baked garlic cheese biscuits with bacon in them. We hung out by the fire till late and the rain never did circle back around at us.
In the morning we broke down camp and each turned towards home. It was another fun trip with KSC, Thanks Bud. Hope to get in another before summers heat gets to bad.
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Originally Posted by RIngFly
Thinking I might do a video on how to make them this year. 
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