Day 16 - Found some more trout! - Monday, June 30th 2025

After all the travel this past weekend, we had a bit of a low-key day today, hanging out around the camper. I worked quite a bit and we tried as best we could to beat the heat. It’s not nearly as bad as the desert was, but 84 degrees in the sun still warmed up the RV pretty good.  Liz found a laundry mat that doubled as a dog wash, so she took our increasingly dusty Great Pyrenees dog Salem for a bath to reset his coat to white again.

After dinner, we wanted to explore where the dirt road next to us went, so we piled in the van. We soon found a little park further up the canyon with a little trout pond that seemed to be very well stocked.

That set off the kids to begging to go back and get the poles, but I wanted to find some worms first so we made a quick trip into Ketchum. The Big Wood River flows by the road there so we made a quick stop to check it out. Finding it too wide and fast for the kids to fish, we grabbed the worms and headed back to the pond. It was a bit like catching fish in a barrel. Every cast would get the bobber bobbing, and the kids quickly caught (and released) a handful of stocked rainbow trout and even a few brook trout that I assume were natives there. All in all, a fun way to spend an evening. 

When we got back to the site, Bree had a campfire going. We roasted marshmallows and then finished off the night with a Connect Four tournament, which Caleb won. Caleb always wins Connect Four. He’s like a Connect Four prodigy or something. 

A little more work for me before bed, and that puts the wraps on another day in beautiful Idaho.

Brook trout are so pretty

We then tried to recreate a photo like you’d see in a Cabelas catalog. 

We quickly got silly with it. Rest assured, no children were harmed in the making of the following photo.

Tommorow morning, Andrew claims he’s going to climb the mountain behind us. Stay tuned to find out he actually gets out of bed,