YAMPA SWEET TEA

KEEPING COLORADO’S LAST WILD RIVER FREE

DENNIS PASTUCHA PHOTOGRAPHY

I WADED TOWARD AN UPSTREAM LIE, PICKING MY STEPS CAREFULLY UNDER THE HIGH AFTERNOON SUN. THE REFLECTION ON THE RIVER’S SURFACE WAS A BLINDING MIRROR THAT DANCED TO THE RHYTHM OF THE RIVER. A SMALL SEAM CREATED FROM SUBMERGED ROCKS COMPRESSED THE WATER INTO A NERVOUS RIFFLE AND FOAM LINE THAT LAZILY SWIRLED DOWNSTREAM IN THE SHADE OF AN OVERHANGING COTTONWOOD. The tree offered some respite from the sun’s wrath as Charles B. Smith Outfitters guide Torre Saterstrom, coached my approach. “That’s the spot, do you see the seam from the rocks along the edge of the shade line?” said the wiry, and easygoing Norwegian. The Colorado sun in July at 6,700 feet above sea level is a force to contend with for a lowland angler like myself, let alone the…

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