We are only 10 miles North of Jackson Hole so we have made several trips into town, we rode our bikes in one day, the way in was easy, the way back was almost all up hill, and some parts were very steep.  We found The Jackson Hole Buffalo Meat Company; they have elk, and buffalo steaks, ground meat, jerky, and some other cuts.  We bought a double elk chop, and I cooked it slow with a little smoke on our jumbo joe Webber kettle.  It turned out unbelievably delicious, it was better than any beef I have ever had.  I went back yesterday and got some ground buffalo meat, and we made buffalo chili, it turned out very good as well.

Pia and I took the road outside the campground and headed east to a Lower Slide Lake, we intended to kayak and fish the lake, when we got there the wind was so high we decided not to even take the kayaks off of the jeep.  We kept going and came to a closed campground on the river and got out to fish.  We tried a couple of spots, no luck.  The last spot we tried I was casting, and Pia was walking back to the jeep when I heard her yell.  I caught her with a fly right in the neck.  It was buried deep enough that I could not get it out.  We headed back to camp, about 45 minute drive after two shots of tequila for her and one for me, I performed surgery, and removed the fly.  Pia was a good sport and was not mad at me at all.  I am so glad it was not a worse situation.   We also took a float from Jackson Lake Dam down the Snake River to the Pacific Creek, take out.  There is a company up here Snake River Shuttle, who will drive your vehicle from your launch point, down river to your take out.  When you reach your destination, your car is waiting for you, it is a cool service.  We did not land any fish but I had two break off.  I have found out I am using too light of line for these “Snake River Fine Spotted Cutthroat Trout, I am going to make some adjustments and we are going to float a part of the river South of town.  I believe this is the same section that I fished a few years ago when I was up here on a promotional trip with some customers.  These fish hit big foam fly’s like a freight train, Pia is getting frustrated and wants some fresh fish, so I better get this figured out.

We think we have finally gotten rid of our unwanted hitch hikers, the pack rat was inside our table when we arrived at Gros Ventre, I pulled the table out of the bay and he ran off into the sage brush.  I think we may have survived the invasion.

July 10, 2015, we floated the Snake River yesterday from South Park, to Pritchard the water was faster than the section that we floated last week.  The fishing was tough, I caught one fish, and Pia did not get any.  We spoke to a guide at the pullout, he had two customers with him and they only got 3 fish.  Should have been here last week we were catching 35 to 40 fish each trip.  Those are famous words that every fisherman has heard, “You Should Have Been Here Yesterday”.  Anyway we have had good fishing on this trip so far, we just could not get anything done in Wyoming.  In the words of the late great Jim Croce “Isn’t that the way they say it goes”