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Artistic view of a Male Pteronarcys californica (Pteronarcyidae) (Giant Salmonfly) Stonefly Adult from the Gallatin River in Montana
Salmonflies
Pteronarcys californica

The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.

27" brown trout, my largest ever. It was the sub-dominant fish in its pool. After this, I hooked the bigger one, but I couldn't land it.
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Landscape & scenery photos from Denali Highway

Denali Highway in Alaska
Wetlands on upper Osar Creek

From Denali Highway in Alaska
West side of the Clearwater Mountains and the Valdez Creek valle

From Denali Highway in Alaska
Mt Hayes

From Denali Highway in Alaska
Clearwater Mountains

From Denali Highway in Alaska
Alaska Range panorama. The high peak in the center/left is Mount Deborah, with Hess Mountain just to its right.  The taller but more distant mountain on the right side of the panorama is Mount Hayes.

From Denali Highway in Alaska
Two hunters walking out of the Clearwater Mountains. These guys carried heavy packs.  They told me the mountains were loaded with caribou, about eight miles in off the road.  Two days later, those caribou would come down near the road and provide intense hunting action.

From Denali Highway in Alaska
Alaska Range during a stalk. My Sunday afternoon hunt on a small mountaintop south of the road around mile 96 led me to shoot this panorama during a break from chasing caribou.

From Denali Highway in Alaska
Denali Highway in Alaska
Alaska Range from Mile 52 Denali Highway. The left-most double peak is 12,510-foot Mt Shand (left) and 13,020-foot Mt Moffit (right). The other two tall peaks, middle and right, are unnamed (at least on Google Earth). The peak on the horizon about 2/3 of the way from Mt Moffit to the unnamed middle peak is 11,400-foot McGinnis Peak.

From Denali Highway in Alaska
Denali Highway in Alaska
Denali Highway in Alaska
Denali Highway in Alaska
Valdez Creek valley viewed from across the Susitna

From Denali Highway in Alaska
50-Mile Lake on upper Osar Creek. In the background, 13,382-foot high Mount Hayes towers over the rest of the Alaska Range.  It is the highest peak in the range east of Denali itself.

From Denali Highway in Alaska
Oops, was that a bull?. The one on the left with a calf behind it might have been a bull.  That's the one that spotted me as I screwed around taking pictures, sneaking up on what I thought were all cows.  I only realized as they ran off that this might have been a bull, and I can't tell from the picture any better than I could tell in person.

From Denali Highway in Alaska
Denali Highway in Alaska
Mountain sunset. The near silhouette is the edge of the Clearwater Mountains, and the far peaks are the Talkeetnas.

From Denali Highway in Alaska
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