Early season float on the Upper Clark Fork

An early taste of spring today, as the temperature climbed into the 60's and Clark and I took a canoe up to Jens, and floated 13 miles down to Drummond. What a beautiful stretch of river, as it twists along cottonwood bottoms through the Anjelo Cattle Ranch, the snowy peaks of the Flink Creek Range towering above to the south, covered in green pines, and the open grassy slopes of the Dutton Ranch along Hoover Creek climbing up to the Garnets to the north. We saw one beaver and the sign of many more, two or more golden eagles, and scores of geese and ducks heading back north for the coming warm weather. What a surprising treat, tucked away right into the middle of the country's largest superfund site. Super fun!