About A Rustic Cabin: Finding A Sense of Place:

About carpenter ants, jaybirds, cornbread, wild trout, forest gnomes, Indian legends, racoons, secret creeks, organized religion, 100-year floods, s’mores, packrats, Adirondack chairs, and other affairs of rustic cabin life.

After searching the slopes of northeastern Oregon’s Blue Mountains for five years, Dauble stumbles upon a circa 1940 log cabin located inside a former dude ranch/hot springs resort in the Umatilla River canyon. Through it all—the fixups, 100-year flood, passing of loved ones—nineteen years of ownership have passed with no regret. Part natural history, part memoir, and part practical advice, A Rustic Cabin is an entertaining account of one man’s dream of owning a cabin near a rushing trout stream. His love of place and family will raise your spirit and fill your heart with delight.

 Gary Lewis, TV host and author of Fishing Central Oregon and Fishing Mount Hood Country says of A Rustic Cabin, “If you care deeply about your sense of peace, your sense of place in the world, perhaps you, like Dennis Dauble, have dreamt of A Rustic Cabin. In these pages infused with memories of work and wisdom, of fortitude and forgiveness, redolent of the essences of moss and morels, one finds the recipe for simple living.”

Author Bio:

Dennis Dauble is a retired fisheries scientist turned outdoor writer who lives in Richland, Washington. He is author of an award-winning natural history guidebook, Fishes of the Columbia Basin, and three collections of short stories about the fishing experience: The Barbless Hook, One More Last Cast, and Bury Me with My Fly Rod. His memoir, Chasing Ghost Trout, was finalist for book of the year for the Outdoor Writers of America in 2022. His most recent book, A Rustic Cabin, chronicles 19 years of cabin life in the Umatilla River Canyon of northeastern Oregon. His essays and articles have appeared in American Angling, Fly Fisherman, Northwest Fly Fishing, Game & Fish, Salmon-Trout-Steelheader, Fly Fishing & Tying Journal, and other magazines. He currently writes monthly columns for the East Oregonian and the Walla Walla Union Bulletin. Whether through humor, wit, or self-reflection, his personal accounts of people and places entertain and inform readers of all ages.