Idaho Adventure News

[caption id="attachment_117" align="aligncenter" width="584"] Dee and Leo at Tinker High Hunting Camp[/caption] [caption id="attachment_118" align="aligncenter" width="584"] Zeke West, right, at the helm[/caption] Three longtime IOGA members, Leo and Dee Crane of Orofino and Zeke West of Grangeville, were honored as Lifetime Members at the annual IOGA meeting last week in Boise. Grant Simonds, executive director of the Idaho Outfitters and Guides Association, said the honor is the equivalent of a "lifetime achievement" award because of the many contributions that the Cranes and West made to...

[caption id="attachment_85" align="aligncenter" width="584"] The IOGA annual dinner and auction always is a fun event where you can buy super-cool outdoor trips and equipment. Don't miss it![/caption] Five Idaho authors, including several from the state's outfitting and guiding industry, will be signing books at a special IOGA event on Thursday, Dec. 13, at the Boise Hotel & Conference Center, 3300 Vista Ave. The public is invited and encouraged to attend. The book-signing event, which runs from 2:30-4 p.m. on Dec. 13, is a great opportunity for people to get autographed books for Christmas gi...

[caption id="attachment_34" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Ken Francisco BBQ's some fresh elk back straps after a client harvested a 6x6 bull elk in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness this year.[/caption] We woke up around 6 a.m., as usual, drank some coffee and hot chocolate in the heated wall tent, and saddled up the horses to go hunting. It was just starting to get light as we rode out of camp on Oct. 25, with snow falling ever-so-quietly in the cedar trees surrounding our camp. We rode for an hour, tied up the horses and started walking up a meadow. It had snowed several inches overnigh...

[caption id="attachment_12" align="alignnone" width="300"] Amy Sinclair of Exodus Wilderness Adventures with a nice fall chinook she caught last week in Hells Canyon.[/caption] The calendar has flipped into October, and that means fall steelhead fishing is coming right up on the Clearwater, Snake and Salmon rivers in Idaho. Do you have your trip booked yet? "We had three ladies with us on Sept. 27th on a day trip from Pittsburg Landing to the Salmon River confluence, and they caught six steelhead and three salmon," says Heather Killgore, co-owner of Killgore Adventures. "They've never caught...