Heading out to Jarbidge

[PJorgen]

I’m planning to travel to Jarbidge NV from Reno next week. Going via Elko, Hwy 225 and Charleston Rd. Will be fishing the Bruneau and Jarbidge rivers.

This is my first trip up that way, any advice or tips?

 

[ski3pin]

Take with a big grain of salt any fishing advise anyone in the Outside Inn gives you. Oh boy did they have fun with us many years back. It was extremely hot on our trip and fishing was poor. Hope it's better for you and have fun. My dentist, back in those days, raved about fishing the Jarbidge River.

 

[Foy]

Surely nobody at the Outdoor Inn would dispense nonsense or BS! In July, Ron (who apparently holds court between 4 and 6 pm daily), proposed to my wife and sealed the deal with a diamond ring presented to her. It was a blank costume band with a dime coin glued to it, hence a "dime-ond ring". She gleefully accepted but when she started asking Ron about his pension and 401(k) balances, he became less interested in proceeding.

The drive on the route mentioned is terrific. Long, steep climb out of Charleston through Coon Creek Summit to Bear Creek Summit and since it was close to 100 deg F on July 11 and since we were towing our 3,000 lb camper, I had to stop and switch on the heater WOT twice to cool down engine and transmission, but that's not likely a problem without the tow.

The descent from Bear Creek Summit into town was entirely banzai--probably 8-10% grade if not more in places and much of the final pitch is shelf road. Thank goodness for functioning low range transfer case and for holding the transmission in low gear. We tiptoed very slowly but safely down the 2,500' drop over just 2-3 miles.

We camped at Sawmill just below town. Took a look at Pine Creek and disbursed sites between town and Pine Creek CG, but most were small and hard by the road, where dusting was an issue. Less so at Sawmill since it's a couple hundred feet from the road.

Lots of fishy looking water in the Jarbidge in the 10 miles below town out towards Rogerson, ID, but we chose not to license up in Nevada given the short stay. We mostly wanted to just go to Jarbidge for a look around enroute between Elko, NV and Ketchum, ID.

Foy

 

[craig333]

Looking forward to the report. Jarbridge is on my short list.

 

[Foy]

Looking forward to the report. Jarbridge is on my short list.

With my alleged retirement now in place, just as soon as I can get by some tax deadlines between now and 10/15, I'm sworn to finally prepare my first TR. I've only been a member here for a decade or so!

Foy

 

[ski3pin]

With my alleged retirement now in place, just as soon as I can get by some tax deadlines between now and 10/15, I'm sworn to finally prepare my first TR. I've only been a member here for a decade or so!

Foy

Since you are so good at working with and meeting deadlines, should we set one for you?

 

[Smokecreek1]

Looking forward to the report. Jarbridge is on my short list.

Me too Craig-I had all the maps and wild cross country trip thru northern Nevada planned out and had an old friend ready to go -then Covid hit and that was it. Maybe soon again one day-all the maps are still piled up on my desk ! So keep us posted on your progress!

Smoke

 

[PJorgen]

Thanks for the comments and encouragement. I’ll definitely do a trip report when I return. May even try to take some pictures.

 

[kmcintyre]

Been our list too and we haven't quite made it there.... I'll look forward to the "report". I suspect the fishing consists of redband trout.

 

[Foy]

Since you are so good at working with and meeting deadlines, should we set one for you?

That's a good idea! But the immediate challenge is that all of my deadlines over the past 38 years have been delivery systems for a paycheck. Only time will tell how I may adapt to non-income producing deadlines!

Foy

 

[Elken]

[SIZE=12pt]I’ve been to Indian Hot Springs in Idaho right below where the Jarbidge River dumps into the Bruneau River. My buddy and I ate lunch there and left, but I was looking at the road going up the other side of the canyon and added camping at the hot springs and driving it to Jarbidge NV to my bucket list. We were there when the old bridge was falling apart and had to ford the Bruneau River, which was pretty low. I heard that they replaced the bridge a couple years later, [/SIZE]

 

[kmcintyre]

Just a FYI. I have a friend who went to the City of Rocks (kind of that direction) and had to come home due to smoke.

 

[PJorgen]

Unfortunately, because of the smoke and the forecasted poor weather, I'm indefinitely postponing this trip. Doesn't look like I'll have another window this fall, so probably have to wait 'till next year.

 

[PaulT]

Stumbled on this video about Jarbidge. Haven’t watched the whole thing yet.

Paul

 

[Foy]

Stumbled on this video about Jarbidge. Haven’t watched the whole thing yet.

Paul

Paul,

I stumbled upon the same video just the other day. It gives a good look at the canyon headed upstream to Jarbidge from Rogerson, ID, a good look at the town, and a good look at the route out of town to Elko or Deeth headed south.

I was amazed to see the motorhome towing the Taco headed out of Jarbidge that way. On July 11, we had driven from Elko to Jarbidge in the other direction and as noted above, the descent from Bear Creek Summit was intense. The video does a good job of showing the steepness and the narrow shelf road character of that segment. I'm pleasantly surprised that neither the motorhome nor the YouTuber's Tahoe overheated going up, and that neither smoked the brakes on long descent to Coon Creek Summit and on down to Charleston on the other side. Either was quite possible. The motorhome must have a Brake Buddy type system to provide braking from the Taco.

After we arrived on July 11, we set up camp at Sawmill, I changed my skivvies, repaired the hole in the driver's seat and we headed to the Outdoor Inn for a beer and a bite. Turns out two of the trucks we'd pulled over for and waved by during the climb were Jarbidge locals and "that guy North Carolina truck towing the camper down from Bear Creek Summit" had already been the featured topic in the bar talk for a couple of hours. They probably had a pool for an over/under on whether I ended up with that rig wrapped around my neck. I can't imagine the local's reaction to the motorhome with Taco in tow..

Jarbidge is a cool little spot. We plan to return, probably from Elko via the same roads just because it's 100 miles farther to enter from Rogerson, ID, and because the scenery out from Elko and through the mountains to reach Jarbidge is so spectacular. I hope the OP, and you, will be able to get over there soon.

Foy

 

[kmcintyre]

Great info!

 

[ski3pin]

Foy, that sounds like Jarbidge and the Outdoor Inn. When we were there the topic was the two UC Berkeley professors who bought a house on main street in town. "They put a hot tub in the backyard!" and, "They don't even use it!" were our favorite memories of the chatter.