kurtak
Well-known member
Some more pics of my days living on the Salmon River (California not Idaho)
Spent 7 years basically "camped out" --- 3 of those year I lived in a 12 X 14 wall tent - the kind with a stove hole for a wood stove - one year in the old cabin at the hard rock mine then I up graded to a camper trailer --- then the forest service came in & kicked EVERYBODY out including miners with permits & plans of operations & they burned ALL the cabins
It was so far back in the mountains it still had one of the very last old "crank" phone systems working - NO TV NO electric unless you provided your own & lucky to get a couple radio stations - even the paved road was basiclly a one lane road where if you met on the road (someone going down river & someone going up river) the person going down river would have to back up to a wide spot
Fryday & Saturday nights people would get together with guitars/fiddles/banjos/mandolins/spoons/base wash tub etc. at Snips Resort or Forks of Salmon Community Hall & do what we called the Solmon River Stomp
The pic of my pickup truck upside down in the road was the result of to much moonshine at one of those Salmon River Stomps
Those where some of the best years of my life - I literally got to live (7 years) of a piece of history - it was literally taking a step back in time
Kurt
Spent 7 years basically "camped out" --- 3 of those year I lived in a 12 X 14 wall tent - the kind with a stove hole for a wood stove - one year in the old cabin at the hard rock mine then I up graded to a camper trailer --- then the forest service came in & kicked EVERYBODY out including miners with permits & plans of operations & they burned ALL the cabins
It was so far back in the mountains it still had one of the very last old "crank" phone systems working - NO TV NO electric unless you provided your own & lucky to get a couple radio stations - even the paved road was basiclly a one lane road where if you met on the road (someone going down river & someone going up river) the person going down river would have to back up to a wide spot
Fryday & Saturday nights people would get together with guitars/fiddles/banjos/mandolins/spoons/base wash tub etc. at Snips Resort or Forks of Salmon Community Hall & do what we called the Solmon River Stomp
The pic of my pickup truck upside down in the road was the result of to much moonshine at one of those Salmon River Stomps
Those where some of the best years of my life - I literally got to live (7 years) of a piece of history - it was literally taking a step back in time
Kurt