Spring has arrived at Marble Mountain Ranch! Even though mother nature is still in the snow mode (for which we are very grateful), the animals are moving on with spring. New arrivals this week are a baby bunny named '91Oreo'92. …
What'92s in the Fridge Tonight? Well, I didn't'92t expect to be searching my fridge again quite so soon, but today we had two delightful young women drop in from North Dakota who did not realize that March is COLD here…
As co-owner and executive chef at Marble Mountain Guest Ranch for the past 15 years I often have guests ask me or my family "Do you eat like this all the time?" to which our children usually respond with "no,…
The reports are starting to come in with predictions for our 2009 salmon fishing. Here is one exerpt: "However, about 81,000 fall chinook are bound for the Klamath River,cell row While we mainly target steelhead in our guiding, it is…
As I continue to espouse the virtues of the Somes Bar Liars Club to friends, family, fishermen, and telemarketers, I reflect back on the club's humble origins in the "Somes Bar Redundancy club located in Somes Bar on the Klamath…
Sorry for the slow blog entries, and with no further delay, here is a quick update: Dry winter conditions are giving us an on-going good winter fishery here. The Klamath remains clear, and fishable from boat or bank access. I…
It's been far to long since I have posted an entry, and I blame LIFE!. It certainly is not any reflection on ....me.. ahem. So, here is a brief summary of some of our recent "ranch" life. My second son,…
Life is in-your-face-large at the Marble Mountain Ranch. During the dry Summer months we stage slash from tree trimmings, and ranch landscaping into a burn pile that grows to unbelievably large size during the course of the season. It becomes…
A frequently asked question from our guests is how we got into the "Dude Ranch" business. I don't want to go into all the historical details at this point, except as it relates to my recently passed "Uncle Bud". Uncle…
Many of our guests come from a life centered in a highly populated metropolitan or urban setting. Some of the probing questions about conditions here are often quite entertaining and illustrate the dramaticly different lifestyle paradigms. For example: "Which off-ramp…