Middle Fork at Pratt Confluence

On a very nice day in June Catherine and I headed out the potholed Middle Fork Road to hike along the Middle Fork to the Pratt River confluence.   This was one of my first hikes after my injury and it was great to be out in the mountains.  We chose this hike since it is relatively flat, more or less following the Middle Fork downstream to the Pratt River.   Of course, once we got to the Pratt I had to get out and fish, I’d packed my tenkara rod along.   I did manage to get some small cutthroat in this section of water and it was to be my last visit of the year that far up the fork.

This one gave me a bit of grief.  The mountains in the background kept being too dark so finally I tried a wash of a light mix of ultramarine, burnt umber and white and then mixed it in to the under layer, it more or less worked.   Acrylic is difficult at times since it dries darker than it is wet, hard to touch up and get the color right.