Last May on my spring steelhead trip, one of the rivers we ventured up had a bit of a problem near the bottom of the river, there was a very, very old tree (actually many trees) that had interlocked themselves into the river, with no way around it. We managed to get around it on the way up (a story i cannot tell here, for fear of my mother imploding if she ever heard of it), but had to find a way down on the way home
After a good 2 hours with the chainsaw, and virtually no progress, we this is what we resorted to...
Gotta love UHMW! We did this for another 4 days (both in and out), and only got stuck once!
Oh, and it was totally worth it!
So, the goal of the trip up was to try and get Maureen her first Steelhead. A task accomplished on the third day after a few hooked and lost fish. 
Up to the ???? River, about a 90 minute drive from ????. What would normally look like this......
Looked like this! Over the next 5 days we got about 2 feet of accumulated snow on the Upper ?????.
A couple of mornings mid-week were a little adventure filled, with a ton of downed trees blocking main roads, spur roads, and trails. We spent a little time for two of our mornings doing a little "tree skidding" to clear our way.
We did, however get a fair amount of fishing in.
Even with seriously dropping water temperatures and levels we managed to stick a few Steelhead here and there.
One of my Intruders that I actually hung in an Alder on purpose for a photo. All others in assorted Alders somewhat accidental.
Typical run on the ????.
Gotta love UHMW! We did this for another 4 days (both in and out), and only got stuck once!
