I dreamt of staying but the options on how to make a living seemed very
limited. I'll always fondly remember the place (not fondly the 500,000+
miles that I spent riding a bus the year that I was there). I haven't
been trout fishing since, there didn't seem any reason to anywhere else.
How did you make your living there ?
Rand E.
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"James N. McBride" wrote:
>
> Shhhhhh. Don't tell everybody about this place. I came here to spend one
> year....that was in 1962.....and I never left. We live in Idaho Falls part
> of the time and just this side of West Yellowstone part of the time. There
> are so many outdoor things to do it's impossible to work it all in. There
> are even a few things to photograph. /jnm
>
>> >
> >
> > I resent that ! I spent a year on that high (>5000 ft) desert helping
> > to deplete that uranium. If you like outdoor sports (hunting, fishing,
> > skiing etc) you're real close to heaven. Definitely heaven if you're a
> > photographer (I was, but pre-Oly 1965)). Where I lived (Idaho Falls)
> > sat at the foot of the Sawtooth Range and the edge of the desert and
> > right near the lava flats (towards Blackfoot). Social life was a bit
> > slow, a Mormon town in the middle of nowhere, but the other stuff mare
> > than made up for it. The only place with better odds on getting nice
> > trout for dinner is your local fishmonger.
> > Rand E.
> > P.S. Oh yes, the combination hunting, fishing, trapping license for a
> > year was $6.35 and in many places trout season was 12 months long and
> > the limit was 25 fish a day.
> >
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> > "James N. McBride" wrote:
> > >
> > > Tank armor is also now being made from depleted uranium. This is being
> > > manufactured on the desert in Idaho of all places. /jnm
>
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