My Life and Travels
Today’s drive to Plymouth COE campground on the Columbia River, we are in site 28 for the next week. Here for Tanya’s birthday on July 4 and Jack’s first birthday on July 6.
Yes, that is a garbage dumpster next to our site in the 105 heat for several days.
Heading towards Tanya, Mike and Jack’s for a week. Celebrating Tanya’s and Jack’s birthdays. Jack’s first birthday and Tanya’s more than first birthday.
This is a I-90 rest spot and Forest Service Campground, at mile post 60.
We are in site A7, a nice large pull-through, great since I will not have to unhook the pickup.
On Friday September 15, 2000 I set on this picnic table at 10:30 at night and had my first beer with my daughter.
View out our front window. 
morning
6 inch brown
12 inch brown
Afternoon
6 inch brown
8 inch brown
15 inch rainbow
16 inch brown
We are 27 miles South of Ennis Montana at Fishing Access Site Campground.
This is the view out the front window while in site number 1.
Internet comes and goes so the picture may not upload. I will post picture later, this is a beautiful place. Eleven sites with only one other person here, he is from Bellingham and has been coming here for eight years.
We left Bakers Hole Campground with our first stop in West Yellowstone for gas and propane. The entrance to Yellowstone was really backed up. In May you can just drive up to a pay station and into the park, today the 5 entrance pay stations were backed up a 1/2 mile all the way back into the West Yellowstone stop light.
Now at Palisades BLM
We are 27 miles south of Ennis, Montana
I didn’t see the three old campsite circles until we had been here for over a week. I was looking on google earth to see what was around this area and I saw the three shadows of campsite circle.
When I got to Tanya, Mike and Jack’s I had enough WiFi to look on google earth on my laptop. The full PC version of Google Earth allows you to review all the past pictures of a specific area. These sites were installed and taken out before 1995.
I parked up by the bridge and used the bridge to get on the other side of the river. I used my new waders while fishing where the Gibbons and Firehole Rivers meet, this creates the Madison River. The river coming in from the right is the Gibbons River and the river coming in from the bottom is the Firehole River.
I spent quite a while fishing this area of the Firehole and caught 6 fish. It was a good day with a 30 minute rain shower.
I was 31 years old when I took this picture of my hiking boots looking at Mt. Olympus in Olympic National Park. We started at Soleduck Hot Spring, carrying a 100 pound pack up to the High Divide across the Cat Walk to Mt. Carrie. The valley below between us and Mt. Olympus is the Hoh River Valley.
This picture was taken today at 67 years old, my new wading boots setting in front of my motorhome after a day of fly fishing in Yellowstone National Park on the Firehole and Madison Rivers.
Today I want back into the park and fished the Firehole River.
Drove 168 miles and this is what we found:
The river is currently unfishable from where we are now to I-90.
Fishing Access Site (FAS) Valley Garden by Ennis has several sites but road is in bad shape.
FAS Ennis just south of Ennis has have a dozen sites right on the river, 7 days, $12.00 a night.
FAS Varney Bridge has 7 sites 1-2 bars of cell, 7 days, $12.00 a night. is 4 miles of gravel road off Hwy 287.
Ruby Creek Campground BLM is a big campground with really nice sites, 1 bar cell, 14 days, water available, $6.00 a night with Old Guy Pass. Good gravel road
FAS Palisades 15 nice sites right on the river, 1 bar cell, 14 days, no current water (not turned on), 14 days, $4.00 a night with Old Guy Pass.
FAS Reynolds Pass has 7 sites right on the river, river very narrow at this point, not a good place for us.
We will be staying at Bakers Hole for another week. I can fish here and will go back into the park and also fish there, at least the water is clear, to high but clear. At this point I think we will go to Palisades for two weeks and then two days to drive to Tanya, Mike and Jack’s.
Internet is really bad this morning hopefully this will post.
I had spent several hours researching possible BLM and Montana Fishing Access Sites for our next camp.