Tank Creek: Short Essays from the Panhandle

is a timeless account of North Idaho's outdoor lifestyle. With humor and passion former journalist Ralph Bartholdt captures the spirit of the Idaho Panhandle's wild places from the Snake and Salmon rivers to the Coeur d'Alene and St. Joe mountains of the Bitterroot Range. chronicles with erudition and insight the experiences, memories and lore of rural inhabitants as they hunt, fish and embrace the sanctity of their surroundings. "This is how it works and why people say fly fishing is just another of life's mirrors: You breathe. You forget about the broken things. You let your heartbeat mark time and focus on future endeavors, count cadence, let distance and past fall away," Bartholdt writes in "The Whole Day.".