What did you do WITH your Ranger today?

[IdahoRanger]

Hopefully you made an appointment before you arrived.

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[Ranger Mel]

Ranger made a trip to Silver City, Idaho a mining ghost town in the Owyhee mountains. HWY 78 starts with 7 miles of paved road then another 15 miles of dirt/gravel road.

My fly fishing buddy from church is a retired geologist and he worked in Owyhee County for many years. Still registers his plates there on his old Landcruiser. He did that so the locals wouldn't give him grief while working there. He would analyze core samples for the mines during exploration and sometimes pulling out ore. Looks like an awesome trip!

 

[Ranger Mel]

Hopefully you made an appointment before you arrived.

I'm not THAT regular!!

 

[IdahoRanger]

I'm not THAT regular!!

That is something I didn't need to know.

 

[IdahoRanger]

My fly fishing buddy from church is a retired geologist and he worked in Owyhee County for many years. Still registers his plates there on his old Landcruiser. He did that so the locals wouldn't give him grief while working there. He would analyze core samples for the mines during exploration and sometimes pulling out ore. Looks like an awesome trip!

Beautiful location!

Great trip but that road takes a good 45 minutes. The lack of snow this year kept the road pretty good as the gate for the city opens memorial weekend. Only the hotel and two gift stores are open and a full time caretaker stays in town all winter. No way would I stay at the hotel, it doesn't look safe.

 

[IdahoRanger]

I'm not THAT regular!!

They do have a couple pit toilets for visitors. Most houses are privately owned and get vandalized so they are locked up. Some people use the old cabins for summer camps.

 

[IdahoRanger]

My fly fishing buddy from church is a retired geologist and he worked in Owyhee County for many years. Still registers his plates there on his old Landcruiser. He did that so the locals wouldn't give him grief while working there. He would analyze core samples for the mines during exploration and sometimes pulling out ore. Looks like an awesome trip!

Sounds like a great job seeing the backcountry.

Hard to believe that Silver City was the county seat as it is really isolated. At least the county seat
was never Dickshooter (It's real), named after an actual man Dick Shooter a 19th-century pioneer settler in Owyhee County, southwest Idaho.

 

[Ranger Mel]

They do have a couple pit toilets for visitors. Most houses are privately owned and get vandalized so they are locked up. Some people use the old cabins for summer camps.

Getting to tour the old buildings would be so cool! I love old west/frontier history.

 

[AzScorpion]

Getting to tour the old buildings would be so cool! I love old west/frontier history.

I do too! We did something similar when we were in Silverton, CO a few years ago but there was still to much snow (It was July 3rd too) to do it with the Ranger so we rented a side x side. They have a bunch of old houses from where the miners use to stay and you could go inside and check them out too. It's crazy how they use to live out there through the brutal winters with really no way of getting back into town until spring when the snow melted.

 

[underwhelmed]

Well I should have left last Tuesday for my annual Wisconsin fly fishing trip with a buddy, but he had emergency oral surgery last weekend, plan was to head for Michigan Wednesday to meet a different buddy… 5.5 inches of rain changed that plan. Had to fix an erosion problem.
At least I got a couple hours out near the house….

 

[AzScorpion]

Well I should have left last Tuesday for my annual Wisconsin fly fishing trip with a buddy, but he had emergency oral surgery last weekend, plan was to head for Michigan Wednesday to meet a different buddy… 5.5 inches of rain changed that plan. Had to fix an erosion problem.
At least I got a couple hours out near the house….

Looks like someone's having fish with a side of snake for dinner. lol

 

[Ranger Mel]

Well I should have left last Tuesday for my annual Wisconsin fly fishing trip with a buddy, but he had emergency oral surgery last weekend, plan was to head for Michigan Wednesday to meet a different buddy… 5.5 inches of rain changed that plan. Had to fix an erosion problem.
At least I got a couple hours out near the house….

Not a snake expert. Bull Snake?

 

[underwhelmed]

Not a snake expert. Bull Snake?

Common northern water snake. I usually see at least one while fishing.

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

I see you’re Pentecostal………and from Appalachia.

 

[Ranger Mel]

Common northern water snake. I usually see at least one while fishing.

Fortunately here in north Idaho we don't have anything venomous. Even the bears aren't!!

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