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The Flying B RanchMile 67
Watch a clip from the show on Flying B Ranch.
The ranch is privately owned by a consortium of owner/members, but occasionally rafters will stop to purchase meals or an overnight stay. Situated a little past the halfway point for most Middle Fork trips, the "B" lies at 3,600 feet elevation and has its own airstrip. In addition to the store it has a main lodge, several cabins, a barn and corral with The operations manager for the ranch is Cal Henry. "It's just like a little town all itself, and you've got to just take care of everything on it, and it gets to be a challenge sometimes... It's just something I've always wanted to do, and it just seems like I'm at home back here in the back country, and that's why I like it, I guess." |
The Flying B is one of the best known ranches on the Middle Fork of the Salmon. Its beach is a regular stop for thousands of rafters who walk up to the nearby ranch store to buy ice, supplies, drinks, and other goodies like ice cream.
livestock; it even has a hydroelectric power plant. It's one of the historic ranches "grandfathered" in when the Frank Church wilderness was created.