By Tom Chandler on Feb 7, 2007 in Underground Entertainment | 5 Comments
The Getoutdoors.com Outdoor Blog once again leads the way in useless-but-interesting information.
This post is about a recently released National Geographic map outlining the population as it skews towards more single men or women.
The areas that have more single men are marked in blue; those with more single women in orange.
It’s bad news for Western single [...]
By Tom Chandler on Feb 6, 2007 in Environment, Opinion | 9 Comments
Despite the fact that it’s being supported by water-stealing, profit-hungry, river-killing vermin, the project to raise the Shasta Lake dam - flooding miles of the Upper Sacramento, McCloud and Pit Rivers in the process - continues to run its damaging, exploitive, never-ending-thirst-for-water course.
Damnit.
The object of my discontent. Raise Shasta Dam? Flood more rivers? Bloody hell.
I’ve [...]
By Tom Chandler on Feb 6, 2007 in Underground Entertainment | 3 Comments
A baseball player in a slump changes his bat, his swing, or even his lucky hat.
To break my slump, I had to change my river.
The Rogue’s Gallery
After a string of skunky days on the Upper Sacramento River, I headed north to fish the Rogue with Dave Roberts and Chris Wheaton - my brother-in-law, Registered [...]
By Tom Chandler on Feb 4, 2007 in Fishing Report, Upper Sacramento | 4 Comments
Winter continues to stumble along, uncertain what it wants to be.
We’ve had little snow, a stretch of very cold temperatures, and now abnormally high temps.
The good news is that the warm, sunny afternoons are waking up the trout population (a little).
The bad news is that doesn’t necessarily mean your average bamboo-fishing dry [...]
By Tom Chandler on Feb 2, 2007 in Opinion, Photography | 4 Comments
Sunrise, front yard. 18 degrees.
Getting outside early in the morning means stinging skin and cold, clumsy hands.
Still, I find myself possessing photographic evidence that Winter in the mountains may not be warm or easy, but it is often spectacular.
Warmer
After a cold start to the year, the last several weeks have seen warmer afternoons, which just [...]
By Tom Chandler on Feb 1, 2007 in Environment, News | 3 Comments
This little bit of bad news comes courtesy of Alert Montana Correspondent Sully.
It’s about an experiment measuring the effect of whirling disease on whitefish.
Little is known about the effect of whirling disease on the less-loved whitefish, but it’s clear declining whitefish populations could also damage trout populations.
Unfortunately, a study designed to discover the [...]
