Moving to salmon Idaho!

[3325]

Quaint town. Been there a few times. Wife and I took a flight from the Salmon airport into a Middle Fork ranch once. It was a breakfast trip. Lots of 4-wheel trails around. I hear elk in that area have taken a hit in recent years due to wolves but apparently it’s still a great black bear hunting area.

 

[dgfavor]

How long ago did you work there?

Last shift was in Sept or Oct '24. I actually kept my credentialing up there thru last year then decided to let it go - working as much or more than I wanted here local. I'm shuttin' 'er down for good in December, calling it a career.
My wife is a Rad Tech and they very often need help @ Steele using travelers so trying to get her to look into some shifts up there ..and I'll tag along to screw off, go fish XXXX creek, get some bfast at Wally's (killer huge smothered omelet) or dinner from the Junkyard (turkey bacon gouda wrap my usual)

I can neither confirm nor deny planning to enter a controlled hunt code for elk that if successful would put me thereabouts, more...or less... in the fall. Oooofta, tired thinking about it.

 

[ODB]

Last shift was in Sept or Oct '24. I actually kept my credentialing up there thru last year then decided to let it go - working as much or more than I wanted here local. I'm shuttin' 'er down for good in December, calling it a career.
My wife is a Rad Tech and they very often need help @ Steele using travelers so trying to get her to look into some shifts up there ..and I'll tag along to screw off, go fish XXXX creek, get some bfast at Wally's (killer huge smothered omelet) or dinner from the Junkyard (turkey bacon gouda wrap my usual)

I can neither confirm nor deny planning to enter a controlled hunt code for elk that if successful would put me thereabouts, more...or less... in the fall. Oooofta, tired thinking about it.
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Gotcha - did you ever run into a traveller CT tech named Taryn in the last year? She's one of my wife's very best friends and daughter's namesake. She did several stints there. She's in MT now though. We visited Salmon last year and I loved it.

My wife is also a Rad Tech (MRI, X--Ray. Mammo) but on the west side of the state.

 

[packgoatguy]

Well the wife found a spot she loved and didn’t have to convince me much, and we were able to grab a house and 5 acres just out of salmon. Always looking for folks to shoot/run/lift/fish with so if your from anywhere around there holler at me!

I'm a bit south of you, but hunt the Salmon area regularly. I'll be passing through town this next day or two for a quick bear hunt if I can wrap a few things up first.

 

[dgfavor]

Gotcha - did you ever run into a traveller CT tech named Taryn in the last year? She's one of my wife's very best friends and daughter's namesake. She did several stints there. She's in MT now though. We visited Salmon last year and I loved it.

My wife is also a Rad Tech (MRI, X--Ray. Mammo) but on the west side of the state.

Very possible but I don't specifically remember her so not sure. I remember one traveler CT/rad tech, younger, blonde, that I chatted with a few times IIRC was from WA...but I am terrible with stuff like...like talking to humans.

Like many places there can be significant differences in experience between visiting there and living there. It is about as remote both geographically and, maybe more importantly, "topographically" and medically as you get in lower 48 and still have some degree of modern conveniences. Medically I had, more times than I care to remember, critical patients that we were literally maxed out on facility capabilities, that because of weather and location we could not move by either ground or air literally anywhere, for hours. Definitely a different experience for a doc used to having pretty much all services and capabilities at his immediate disposal 24/7. It was actually a big stressor and I checked weather literally every shift to get an idea how it might go. Folks in the community are generally pretty accepting of the trade-offs and limitations of living there.
Big hockey town, cool outdoor rink. Home of the Salmon Rapids. Who knew?

 

[ODB]

Very possible but I don't specifically remember her so not sure. I remember one traveler CT/rad tech, younger, blonde, that I chatted with a few times IIRC was from WA...but I am terrible with stuff like...like talking to humans.

Like many places there can be significant differences in experience between visiting there and living there. It is about as remote both geographically and, maybe more importantly, "topographically" and medically as you get in lower 48 and still have some degree of modern conveniences. Medically I had, more times than I care to remember, critical patients that we were literally maxed out on facility capabilities, that because of weather and location we could not move by either ground or air literally anywhere, for hours. Definitely a different experience for a doc used to having pretty much all services and capabilities at his immediate disposal 24/7. It was actually a big stressor and I checked weather literally every shift to get an idea how it might go. Folks in the community are generally pretty accepting of the trade-offs and limitations of living there.
Big hockey town, cool outdoor rink. Home of the Salmon Rapids. Who knew?

That may have been her, she is from WA - and still works at Harborview on occasion.

Great points on the living/visiting differences. My wife is always assessing things from a medical perspective both from an acute care as well as long-term perspective (she’s had cancer). As well as a “what if we need to move our parents in with us.” Things can get complicated fast!

 

[el_jefe_pescado]

Congrats! What a cool pocket.