Wandering the Warners, 2021

I don’t know if you have been out in the great outdoors in the past year, but if you have I’m going to bet that if you had to choose one word for your experience it would be “busy”. Yes, it’s busy out there. I can only hope with the pandemic slowing down that people will go back to whatever they were doing before it struck, instead of camping, fishing and generally crowding things up. So, with this in mind, and with Memorial Day upon us, what were we to do? Where could we go that wouldn’t be over run by the crowds? Well, I guess our answer was, as far away as possible. Luckily we found some peace and quiet. But trust me, you would never want to go there. So don’t do it. I’m serious.

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Chickahominy!, 2021

Well, it appears we hadn’t been to Chickahominy for a fishing visit since 2018. Thankfully this site serves as my collective memory on such things. We have stopped in for a night on our way to somewhere else, and enjoyed a close up visit by a great horned owl on one memorable night. This time around it just seemed like we needed to get out to do some spring fishing, and take the boat for one last ride before we parted ways. A sunny weekend and the waters of Chickahominy beckoned. We arrived right before sunset.

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Macks Canyon, 2021

We continued searching for signs of spring. If you don’t recall, it was blackbirds on the John Day River that kicked off our spring search, followed by a trip to the coast that revealed daffodils in bloom, and then a weekend in the Columbia River Gorge for some spring wildflowers. Spring is all around, you just have to get out and find some signs. This time around we were bound for the lower Deschutes river. What signs of spring would we find?

Hills taking on a shade of green, a sure sign of spring on the Deschutes
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