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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Ripsnort on July 07, 2004, 10:09:46 AM
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3700 miles, 60 hours of driving, in 15 days, from Seattle to Minnesota, back thru Glacier National Park for camping 3 days, then onto Eastern Washington for fishing for 5 days. The kids were great travelers (Thank God for DVD movie players!) and the fishing was absolutely great! Here are a few pics, enjoy.
Our “Home” for two weeks: (Dropped the boat off in Eastern WA before heading to Minnesota) http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/135_3581.JPG
My favorite picture, a grandson with his grandfather (Minnesota).
http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/134_3482.JPG
Saint Mary Lake boat tour at Glacier National Park in Montana:
http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/135_3505.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/135_3516.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/135_3527.JPG
Hiking around Saint Mary at Glacier National Park in Montana:
http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/135_3517.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/135_3519.JPG
Fishing in Eastern Washington, 20 walleye for about 12 hours total fishing:
http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/135_3562.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/135_3550.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/135_3552.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/135_3553.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/135_3569.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/135_3570.JPG
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Woot! welcome back rip.. we even started a "Where's Ripsnort" thread.. Some thought you were abducted but hey.. I had faith they were going to return you..!
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Good to have ya back !
Nice pick too.
Hey is that a Pink truck i see????
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After much tunneling Rip has escaped the bomb (wife ack ) shelter !! WB :D
Hey Arlington Airshow is this weekend . Are you coming up ?
p.s you missed the 262 flight also .
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sure is some beautiful country you passed through there rip.
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first wife's family is from that area Cardston Al canada down to glaicer park area. Most fun and best fishing i've ever had was there. Didn't it seem odd to still have day light around 11pm :).
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Welcome back Ripster, the posts you have missed out on.
Karaya
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I cant really tell, but am I detecting fatherly baldness as well? :D
great shots rip =]
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enjoyed the pics...thx for posting!:)
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Boxboy, its called "Saddle" and yes, it does look pinkish in pics, but not in person, strange isn't it? ;)
Rosco, I missed the 262 flight?! :( I can't make the airshow, too much on my plate this week end unfortunately.
Rod367th, no chit! Light until 10:30--11pm was cool!
Octavius, bald is beautiful! ;)
Thanks all for the comments.
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No life jackets on your sons while fishing?
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(http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/135_3527.JPG)
Hmm... Montana..
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Originally posted by banana
No life jackets on your sons while fishing?
Any boat over 19 foot does not require life jackets be worn, only to be onboard. And, both can swim(They've been in swimming lessons since age 3). Our boat is 20 ft. 3 ".
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Man we were getting worried. :)
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
Man we were getting worried. :)
Yeah, I'll bet :p
I'll be back to copy/paste as soon as it slows down here! :mad:
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Real purdy pictures Rip, bet you had a good time. Welcome back.
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Holy Cow Rip,
Look in the 1st pic, directly over the camper. UFO?
BTW, good lookin truck. How did it pull the mountains?
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
My favorite picture, a grandson with his grandfather (Minnesota). [/url]
Hey, that kid's got the steely-eyed look of a natural-born Aces High killer.
Thanks for sharing, Rip.
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thx for sharing rip :)
more of this kind of posts and less politics
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Originally posted by Nilsen
thx for sharing rip :)
more of this kind of posts and less politics
Cant disagree here, the USA has much better looking natural scenery than Norway...
;)
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Cant disagree here, the USA has much better looking natural scenery than Norway...
;)
hihihi :D nice try
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Originally posted by rpm371
BTW, good lookin truck. How did it pull the mountains?
TY. Not bad, it only kicked out of OD over the passes and I maintained 50 mph with the Camper on the back just fine over 4 major passes. On "Look out" pass in Idaho it kicked into 2nd gear and I bullied it back up to 50 mph, never exceeding 3500 prm in the process. That 460 cubic inch engine is a monster! I wish I had the 3.73 rear end instead of the 4.10 though. MPG would have been better with the 3.73 rear end, 12.5 mpg going to Minnesota (light load, 300 lbs of gear and 4 passengers) and about 8 mpg avg. coming back (with 3200lb camper on the back, plus aforementioned load) I had a helluva head wind all the way back westward too, so I bet I could get 9 mpg without the wind. Hooking the boat up in Eastern WA to homeward leg (3 hours) didn't affect the mpg at all.
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My dad used to have an identical style camper on his '88 F250. It had a 400 Modified and it was a dog. Wound up putting extra cooling on the engine and tranny to keep from burning it up. But to it's credit, it never broke down and he made several long trips (Texas to D.C., Texas to SoCal, Texas to Minn.), just never got in a hurry.
Now that I think about it, he probably had 5,000 lbs of crap thrown in that camper.
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Rip you gotta take that thing to Europe! :)
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Did you get a chance to take the "Going to the Sun" road?
See the weeping wall?
I love Glacier.
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rip.....
what kind of camera did you use?
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yellowstone is better than glacier
:p
WB rip and me!
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rpm, lmao!
grun, LOL! ...with a texas oil well deed in hand, yah! http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/Difference.jpg
Midnight, neg on GTTS road, no vehick-alls over 21' allowed anymore...I'm 24' with camper and wasn't prepared to unload it due to old jacks that need replacing on the camper. We spent two nights at Saint Mary, then drove the southern route around to West Glacier and spent 1 night at Lake McDonald (super size me baby)
Nilsen, these were taken with an old pentax 35mm and a canon s40 digital. One day I'll get serious about buying a good digital camera, its on the 'want' list.
Skull, yellowstone next year! been close though, Quake lake...
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yellowstone is still growing back after the 88 fire.
damn 20 fish in 12 hours?!?!?! i bet you were using the damned spinner to. I gave up spinners last year for Fly fishing, which i still suck at. only caught 4 fish. 3 brook trout and 1 Bonneville cutthroat out by yellow stone. (brook's on Madision River just inside yellowstone and the cutthroat on the Hoback river in my disclosed fishing hole:D ;) )
Quake Lake is truly sad. The sight of those tree's out in the lake is truly sad.:(
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Originally posted by B17Skull12
yellowstone is still growing back after the 88 fire.
damn 20 fish in 12 hours?!?!?! i bet you were using the damned spinner to. I gave up spinners last year for Fly fishing, which i still suck at. only caught 4 fish. 3 brook trout and 1 Bonneville cutthroat out by yellow stone. (brook's on Madision River just inside yellowstone and the cutthroat on the Hoback river in my disclosed fishing hole:D ;) )
Quake Lake is truly sad. The sight of those tree's out in the lake is truly sad.:(
Yeah, spinners :) I've always been a meat hunter, not a trophy hunter :)
Chit, if you're ever out in the Yellowstone area in the spring, hollar, I have fishing rights to 3 ponds on the Gravelly range at 7,000 altitude where you could put cotton on a fly hook and cast it out in the ponds and they'd bite it...we caught 15 fish one afternoon, on my first and only time on a fly rod. My stepdad has his own pond on the same range, with Brown, Brookies, rainbows and GRAYLING!** (Step brother works for the federal fish hatchery in Ennis, 70 miles North of Yellowstone)
**(I caught the "Cycle" one afternoon but I cheated and used spinners :p )
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hehe. i used to be like you using a spinner when i went to the sierra's to fish in the sumnmer.
Stock trout= teh dumb!
Native trout= teh smart!
rip i only use dry flies on still water and shallow rivers and ponds other wise i use wets they work much better.
Also btw i lost 3 fish on my fish hole i found:eek:
i suck at landing them on a fly rod.
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Spinners for big fish, flies for widdle fish. ;)
(http://www.fkpfishing.net/Floattuber/TuberPics/StaphanoLodi_Italy_small.jpg)
As far as landing them, I've always felt that a fish caught and lost is better than no fish at all!
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true rip but i prefer more of a challenge when fishing.:)
nice catch btw.
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Originally posted by B17Skull12
true rip but i prefer more of a challenge when fishing.:)
nice catch btw.
Aye, fly fishing=more patience, and time, neither of which I possess at this stage...
Not my fish, but I've caught some good sized northerns and muskies before..
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rip fyi if you bring a spinner to yellowstone the only real place to fish is on Yellowstone Lake. is impossible to fish with one anywhere else there is so much moss in those rivers.
edit: they are tring to get rid of the lake trout, which somehow got into yellow lake, heart lake, and shone lake. heart lake is the best place to fish for them if you want to take the hike up a mountain and down. you can catch as many as you want and keep them all. No possession limit.
Yellowstone lake. All lake trout must be killed. either keep them or puncture air bladder.
shosone is regular limits.
lake trout also usually live down deep. around 50-600 feet and they are usually bigger than 20 inches.
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welcome back rip....
hope you enjoyed your vacation....
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Welcome back and GREAT pics!