Its amazing how some people are able to get permits every year. Guess you just have to know height officials. Automatic permits for the favored, lottery for everyone else.
The 2nd Hermit shown for just a second in beginning of this video was Earl Parrot’ up on his remote ledge hideaway above the middle fork near his massive Garden
Nice short story. It's great that practices have changed. But the Superfund is NOT a thing of the past. It is sleeping at the bottom of one of the world's greatest lakes...Lake Coeur D' Alene.
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Me and Bill Sapp visited Sylvan Hart summer 71 what a true Engineer, Craftsman, and Homesteader/Mountain Man. I was 21 still have some photos documenting his work we stayed a week or two and cut some firewood for him, he fed us a few times, quite an intelligent person. I think he helped design and develop the Norad bombsite used in WW2. Said his dad used to take him back int that area when young, and after war, he moved there and homesteaded. Jay Failing
If you don't want the logjam blasted because it is wilderness, Kirk, then don't call for rescue if you ever get in trouble in wilderness. Yeah it is wilderness but there are also a lot of unprepared humans out there that don't belong. The forest service has to manage a few larger hazards in order to deal with all those people. It helps to see these issues through the eyes of experience.
I have been boating wilderness rivers for 30 plus years and this was the biggest joke I have ever seen on a river, they were not managing the river for the people involved they were trying to get TV coverage nothing more, turn it into a zoo and act like they were saving people. There was no need to get congressional approval or call in every National News station in the counrty to blast out a log jam that would wash away during the next winter as all upper put permits were done the weekend we put on due to low water. It helps to see issues through the eyes of someone who was there, but I guess you have more experience than me. 30+ years rafting/kayaking class V rivers 10+ years professional guide 10+ years professional kayak instructor 8 years swift-water rescue instructor wilderness first responder swift-water rescue tec with 5 years working for major production companies (Werner Brothers, MGM & various T.V and commercials productions....excetra).
I lived and worked on the Salmon River in the late 1960s. There was still a good number of old homesteaders, miners, and trappers living there then. The locals called them river people. There were families who eked out a fine living since the Salmon River area is low in altitude and in a sort of banana belt. They had orchards, gardens, and a small number of livestock. Frank Varin owned the town of Shoup and produced electricity on a Pelton wheel in a creek next to the town. Shoup was a general store with gas pumps. There was Glen Higstead who owned the Yankee Clipper Mine. Verla and Eller Watson who owned the Ramshorn Lodge. Jerry Rockwell whom the Forest Service burned out. Hacksaw Tom, a trapper who had a cabin on Horse creek. I was told Hacksaw Tom got his name from sawing his way out of Custer County Jail with a hacksaw blade. During that time I built trails in the Big Horn Crags, built a cabin on Owl Creek near Shoup, and worked on a ranch just beyond the end of the road on the Salmon River. I believe it was called the Corn Creek Ranch then. I delivered supplies to Forest Service smokejumpers fighting fire in the Idaho Primitive Area on nine mules and a saddle horse. That is when I had my first encounter with true Idaho wolves on Owl Creek. One evening a pack of six wolves walked by with lowered heads as they observed me with uncertainty. I'm sure my eyes and mouth were both wide open with some uncertainty of my own. I can't make any promises as to how accurate names are due to my memory and the time that has passed, but I had a hell of a life in my twenties living at the end of the road on the River of No Return.
theirs a book last of the mountain men sylvan hart I thought was a good read when I was a kid he talks about caves that early man lived in that the top of the exit hole was so thick covered in smoke you could chip it and sill wouldn`t change color. He also mined copper and made nice tea pots and kettles and bored out the barrels and made his own musket loaders.
@@todddaugherty110 oh I have.. luckily just last week and was rewatching this video. The pack trail goes above the rocks, I believe one person did portage at this time.
What they do not show you is the log that flew up and over a small hill and landed on a hiking trail, outside there "blast zone". Nothing about this operation was safe. All they did was turn a natural event into "Look at me.... I`m a Forest Service specialists, I`ll save you, but lets get some TV crews here first." What a joke!!!
USFS turned this into the biggest circus I have ever been in. There was no need to blast, no need in trampling down vegetation to make a viewing platform to watch the blast. We portaged our gear raft and a few kayaks and were told we would be arrested at the take out if we left the scene, Just because John Haugh wanted to play with some explosives does not make this the correct action to take. One or one hundred logs across the river you portage and go on your way. USFS specialists what a joke.
The people who started the Special Olympics deserve to lose theirs eyes for the glory of James Bell who was better known as Cool Papa Bell a negro league baseball player! I have every great reason to want to get into the Special Olympics, because I want to spit on the people run the organization!
They are thriving on public and private land. I am pretty sick and tired of seeing this Yukon wolf promoted. I was attacked by a pack of wolves, and let me tell you a woman or child is going to be killed soon. You are doing Idaho a real disservice by promoting Yukon wolves.
Amazing. INL is so glad to be a sponsor for this. What an incredible program this will be AND what an incredible state in which we live. THANK YOU IPTV!
This is for Andrew Erhardt of Caldwell Idaho aka Mormonville. Dude, go brush your teeth they stink bad, go comb your hair, and shower. I can smell you from here. I don't appreciate when you blocked me from your thread. Anyway, have a nice life living with your mommy.
Beautiful video Bruce! Thank you for taking the time to upload this... The Dunes are one of my favorite places for a quick overnight getaway. Love to see Idaho videos! Take good care....
I backpacked in to fivemile bar from Warren in 1996. There was a German lady taking care of buckskin's place. I'm surprised the Fed hasn't taken over everything along that river.
The German couple Hans is the husband also is a river guide in that area. They have been the caretakers of buckskins place for many years now. With permission from the Gov't
When I was at Buckskin's place, 1971 , august, his nephew lived behind in house, and claimed to have fought in court for Sylvan's rights to use the land he was on, and won. I think it ended up being a five acre parcel. We were college kids, and cut firewood for Sylvan, and I photo'd and drew his many weapons and tools, and my friend did a paper for UCLA about rural technology and got some credits. Was a real treat to visit. bit hot.
