

She threw her pack on the picnic table, raced back to our site, and rousted me out of my cozy sleeping bag, where I was still recovering from celebratory campfire doses of bourbon: “Dude, get up! You won’t believe the campsite I just scored.” A perfect creekside camp at Kelly Forks, in the Clearwater National Forest


The next morning, my ambitious, early-rising wife did a fresh campground reconnaissance and discovered the best streamside site had just been vacated. Forest Service’s Kelly Forks Campground in northwest Idaho-and snapped up one of the few remaining campsites. After a long drive, Mary and I rolled into our isolated headquarters-the U.S.
