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BackpackingFly Fishing
Three Forks, Two Rods: Four Days on the Conejos
Seven miles in to the valley below the Three Forks of the Conejos, four days of brookies and rainbows, three nights of weather — and the eight-and-a-half-foot glass rod that made the nine-footer dead weight.
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