Submitted by mtdave on Wed, 2016-03-16 15:18 Veterans Service Partnership Utah Single Fly National Leadership Council - NLC Vote Up Down +4 + 017.JPG 2016 Veterans Service Partnership Fly Fishing Trip to Slough Creek for Veteran Couples Date: June 25-July 2, 2016 This extraordinary trip to Slough Creek in Yellowstone Park offers an incredible opportunity for veteran couples to experience a week-long, expense paid visit to one of the most beautiful places in the world. The trip offers the veteran couple a chance to experience together the superb fly fishing for Yellowstone cutthroat trout on Slough Creek, to go horseback riding and hiking, enjoy comfortable accommodations, and great food at a private guest ranch. More importantly, the trip offers a veteran couple the chance to spend time together, to decompress, and an opportunity to connect with other veteran couples. …. I watched him casting in the water, I watched him bubble with pride when he caught his first cutthroat trout. I watched stress roll off his body and something was very different, but so very familiar. I saw my husband as he was… before his life had been affected by his time in combat….. I have never felt so uplifted by a single group of people, as I did when my husband and I were privileged to participate in a couple’s fly fishing trip to Silvertip Ranch through the Veterans Service Partnership…. Jessica B., 2014 Couples Trip participant Basic Info and Participant Criteria Must be a veteran couple i.e. only one member of the couple need be a veteran. We encourage couples to fish together. Are the veteran and spouse physically capable of walking 1-2 miles per day and to go wading fishing over uneven terrain at altitude of 5-6,000 feet? VSP trips are open to all vets from all services and all wars A VA disability is NOT a requirement for VSP trip participation VSP trips are alcohol fee Arrive Bozeman 6/24 and depart 7/2 If you wish to nominate a veteran couple for consideration, please contact VSP Western Coordinator Dave Kumlien via email at DKumlien@tu.org or call (406-570-0023) or VSP Director Alan Folger (afolger@tu.org or call (828-290-3730) with any questions.