Somewhere, Idaho

In the essay collection "Somewhere, Idaho," former journalist Ralph Bartholdt colorfully documents adventures in Idaho's backcountry, taking readers on an all-seasons tour to quiet hideouts, podunk taverns and secluded streams.In a literary, journalistic style and with dry humor, Bartholdt describes the wild landscapes and people of Idaho's Panhandle and Snake River country encountered while he hunts birds and big game, casts flies and ponders the importance of old boots, a gun, or a whitefish run."Everyone wants an empty road to a fishing destination. It's more than a nudge. In a world of digital grit like tallow on our tongues, it has become a necessity that says odds don't matter, only the roar of the water matters and the cold heft of sky in a day stunted by time," Bartholdt writes in the essay, "Big River, Empty Roads."Bartholdt worked as a journalist in Montana and Idaho and was field editor for the Idaho Outdoor Journal.