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Figured that a couple of Pro Staffers would have recognized the Boulder River Valley in Montana. Didn't realize that the ranch signs were nearly impossible to read. For your enjoyment...

· EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WHITES
· MONTANA THE LAST GREAT PLACE
· NO WOLVES
· DEPORT ILLEGAL ALIENS
· DISOBEDIENCE TO TYRANTS IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD
· HELL IS RESERVED FOR THOSE THAT BELIEVE IN IT
· IMMIGRATION WHITE OR WRONG

· CRIME DOESN’T PAY NEITHER DOES RANCHING
· IMMIGRATION OR INVASION
· MOON LANDING FAKED
· FREE MEN HAVE GUNS SLAVES DON’T
· ABOLISH THE KING HOLIDAY
· BORN FREE AND TAXED TO DEATH
· IRAQ WAR FOUGHT FOR ISRAEL FREE ZUNDEL
· FREEDOM FROM WAR
· THE END OF THE WELFARE STATE IS THE BEGINING (SIC) OF THE POLICE STATE
· 9/11-01 THE BIG LIE

Baetis Summit

It's time to plan our Spring Ritual. Choose your preference on the side bar. I know we typically gathered a week earlier, but I suspect that March 13 will be the day of the Woolrich Warehouse Sale and I need clothes.

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June 30, 2003

Elk at 13,000 feet - Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

The Shane Cabin

Shane Cabin

Who among us will ever forget Allan Ladd's character Shane in the classic 1953 treatment of A. B. Guthrie's screenplay of the same name as he defends the newly arrived settlers of Jackson Hole from the laconic, bad ass Pennsylvania gun slinger, Jack Palance, in the late 19th century? Not me.

The film was exceptionally notable for it's departure from the usual gunfight-saloon girl-cowboy and Indian extravaganza that was so popular at the time. Realism was important here. Indeed, it was the first movie of it's kind with loud gunshots that startled the audience, and the footage of the settlers crossing the Snake River at Schwabachers Landing is historically accurate.

Alas, the rude settlement with it's general store and saloon are now gone from Antelope Flats, and the National Park Service shows little interest in preservation of this last remaining cabin, which is a little peculiar given the effort that was put into the historic Miller Cabin down valley on Flat Creek.

Every time I look at this cabin I can still hear the young Brandon Wilde shouting " Shane, Shane, come back, Shane!" as our wounded hero rides off into the Teton Mountains...

Behind the action.

P.S. The plume of smoke behind the aspen trees in the background is from a prescribed burn up in the Gros Ventre in September, 2009.

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Slow times here on the RBF blog. The short days and low temps must have everyone's serotonin levels low. Today's temps kicked my ass in gear and got me fishin at the Little J. No fish but it was great to be out and in Penn's Woods.

Anyway, here's a photo to get your heads scratchin. The first one to correctly name the woman depicted in the sculpture, the street, city, and country in this photo gets a free pat-down by TSA at the Philly airport. Oh, and if you can sing the song you get extra credit. This photo isn't strictly piscatorial but it is molluscan (Wade, quit staring at the cleavage). Brilliant!

Photo of the Year - 2009

Photo Credit - Agrontrutta