The Pedersen Family: October 2008

Good evening all!! I wanted to fill everyone in on my trip to Bend, Oregon to visit the Jeld-Wen window manufacturing plant and to do some fly fishing in the Deschutes River.

My boss Mike and I met Mike Stoffel, Jim Ley, and Mike Ley at the Fort Wayne Airport and flew out around 7 a.m. on October 2 to Minneapolis and then to Portland and arrived around 11:30 a.m. We then jumped in our rental SUV and headed south 2 hours down to Bend.

We made one stop on the ride down to Bend at the Detroit Dam. Nothing too exciting about the Dam but the scenery was of course beautiful. Here are a couple of pics:

After checking in at "The Riverhouse" we all headed to are own rooms to relax and wind down from the long trip. The next pictures are of the suite I stayed in:

We toured the window plant all Friday morning and then had meetings at the plant in the afternoon. As I was laying in bed Friday night I couldn't wait till the morning to go out into the Deschutes River and do some fishing.

In this particular river the entire one side is an Indian Reservation and you're not allowed to set foot anywhere on it. Also you must have waders and fish from the river and not from the boat! So this was all new to me Mr. City boy who just started fishing about a year ago. Here are some pictures of the river and surrounding scenery. By the way I did catch a 17" mountain white fish, and had a couple of trout on my line, battled to get them in, and lost them...

This picture is of some horses down by the river on the Indian Reservation side...

Here is our fishing crew: Kent (Angola, IN), Neal (Guide), and myself (man I need to lose that belly!!)

On our trip back to Portland on Sunday we stopped at the "Timberline Lodge" on Mount Hood. Here are a few pictures of the entrance and a glimpse of snow on the vehicles around the lodge-I had to laugh because I was taking those pictures in shorts and a sweatshirt!