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Shane came up from San Diego for a week (12-20 to 12-27), he was cold a lot but didn’t complain. We hit up Pikes Place Market, Seattle Museum of Modern Art, and the Imax for a late showing of “I am Legend” all in one day. Saturday we did the nerd thing and I bought myself a new LCD TV.

Sunday we made the trip to Forks, we stopped at Queets for about an hour to get a look at the river and hopefully stretch our legs a little, after getting about 1/2 way to the end of the road I decided to turn around, my Focus isn’t much for dirt/gravel roads. It rained almost the whole way then stopped just when we decided to check out Ruby beach. It was overcast but we hit it at the perfect time, tide was way out and we still had about 1 hour of daylight.

Then 3 days of unsuccessful fishing, the rivers were hosed and most of the guys we saw were plunking while they sat in their trucks with the heaters on full blast fighting off sleep. We hit every river except the Bogachiel, I wish we had one more day so we could of given it a shot, it’s always the last to clear up.

Finally we left Forks about 10PM Wednesday night which was a good thing cause it snowed for ~70% of our trip back to Olympia. Most of the drive between Forks and Aberdeen was done at 40 MPH with multiple inches of untouched snow on the ground. The front wheel drive Focus finally showed it’s strength and we made the trip with minimal sliding. Shane had a good time since it was snowing super hard and at times was difficult to see, he said he’d never been in a snowstorm like that before. By the time I hit Olympia and I5 my mind was dragging and my eyes were droopy, took an extra hour to make the trip.

Overall it was a good time, just wish I’d been able to hook up Shane with a nice steelhead.