Saturday, December 11, 2010

Local Bread on the River!


Store Front in Salmon, Idaho.

This past spring the Odd Fellows’ Bakery opened up here is Salmon Idaho. Craig McCallum has been the driving force behind the bakery since its infancy. He spent much of last winter working to get store construction finished, as well as building the wood fired oven. It was exciting to watch progress and see the doors open in the spring of 2010.

All the bread that the bakery serves is baked in the wood fired oven. They build a fire right in the oven. When the optimal temperature is reached the ash and coals are swept out and the oven is ready for action. They offer a variety of different specialty breads, sandwich breads, muffins, scones, and much more.

Wood Fired Oven.

Fresh Sesame Seed Bread.

Their delicious bread fits into our river menu in several different ways. We like to serve at least one loaf of their bread on sandwich days at lunch. Dinner breads are also a great fit. Last summer the Odd Fellows’ Garlic Bread received great reviews on our trips. The whole garlic cloves baked into the bread, creates a flavor that is hard to beat! I remember one comment about the garlic bread at Lower Bull on the Main Salmon, something along the lines of, “this is the best bread I have ever had.”

More Fresh Bread.

With the bread baked from natural and some local ingredients, supporting a local small business, helping build a sustainable local community and economy, and the plain fact that the bread is delicious, it’s a no brainier to serve it on the river! We are proud to serve Odd Fellows’ bread on both our Middle Fork of the Salmon and the Main Salmon trips.

Craig McCallum, one of the proud owners of Odd Fellows' Bakery.

Seth Tonsmeire

Friday, December 10, 2010

2010 Facebook Winner

Jessica enjoying a day on the Main Salmon.
photo: Seth Tonsmeire

To reward people for being a fan WRO on facebook, we gave away a free 6-day Main Salmon river trip to one lucky fan! Jessica Winans was the winner in last years facebook giveaway.

Jessica and Galen on the Dwyer creek hike, Main Salmon.

Jessica is a teacher at Montana State Western in Dillon Montana, where she teaches geography. She joined our Main Salmon trip on August 9th last summer for her free river trip prize. Jessica and her boyfriend Galen (who also joined the trip) are both avid rafters and were great to have along. Galen is also a kayaker, so he brought along his playboat.

We are looking to giveaway a Middle Fork or Main Salmon trip for the 2011 season sometime this winter! So make sure you "like" our facebook page, and stay posted for how you could be the lucky winner!

Good luck to everyone in the next giveaway.

Seth Tonsmeire


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