The Last Days of Stealhead Joe

If I never have to read another one of Outside Magazine's annual rundowns of best places to live it won't be too soon, Park City won this year by the way.

Then they win me back by putting out a piece like this by Ian Frazier. I hear Park City is beautiful this time of year.

The Deschutes River fly-fishing guide called Stealhead Joe was an angling master with a long list of devoted clients. But as Ian Frazier, who fished with Joe last fall, learned, off the water, Joe’s life was a tangle of troubles that ultimately overwhelmed him.

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Comments

[Neil]

Read this the other day. Just great writing, and a sad, but riveting story.

[Jeff]

"So much of the world is bullshit, this river is not" That just rocked me from the inside out.

[MN]

I agree, great read, but very sad.

[Dan]

Great read about the life of a great guide. As for the Best Town, always glad to see the town I live in doesn't make the list!