As most of you know, I love adventures. My buddy, Steve; his dad, Tom and I decided to head into a spectacular canyon area on the South Ram River. We backpacked into an area and planned to stay for a few days although the weather had other plans for us unfortunately. After we bush bashed several kilometres, we set up camp. Sadly, the South Ram was not in prime shape because of storms. It had two feet of visibility but we enjoy the camping and exploring as much as the fly fishing. We scrambled down steep areas to fly fish. We did catch our share of west slope cutthroat considering the visibility in the water was low. We had a very cool two hours when 24 mountain sheep wandered onto the cliffs in front of our camp and hung out! Well day two, steady rain moved in and the water turned grey. We still explored and had a great time because the views are spectacular. Getting around is not easy and can be dangerous, especially when everything is wet and slippery. Doing some map work paid off for us. I have fly fished in this area many times but have not taken the time to hike well down stream. The going is tough. There are game trails in places but you are in the bush and dealing with dead fall everywhere, and river access is not easy! Many individuals go in VIA helicopter. You can see why!
We hiked out early. The steady rain ran down the shale walls and the river visibility went to near zero. Sigh. We still had an outstanding trip.
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