Big Hole Lodge.

6-7-08 BIG HOLE LODGE, WISE RIVER, MONTANA: We got here in the mid-afternoon, in a snow flurry, after the usual kinds of flight delays we’re all getting used to, but no missed connections and no lost luggage. It’s 34°, windy and with intermittent snow flurries. Glad I have warm gear.

The Lodge is in a mountain valley, our cabin is on the banks of the Wise River, which is roaring away. Those of us without our own fishing stuff got outfitted and registered and are ready to go tomorrow. The place is about half an hour from the Butte airport. We are in the granite formations of the Pioneer batholith. The mountain tops are snow covered.


Wise River and granite mountains.

Our Cabin on the banks of the Wise River.

Big Hole Lodge.