Category: Cultural critique
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Angles
In the last few days, winter has finally caught up with us. The forecast for the past 24 hours was impressive, 45 and sunny falling to a few degrees (F) below 0, with close to a foot of snow, maybe some rain, and winds up above 20 miles an hour. At my 5000′ camp only…
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Terrace Mtn hunting fatality report and analysis
(photos/maps pulled from the discussed report) Many of you will have at least heard of the death of hunting guide Mark Uptain in a Grizzly Bear attack this past September, in the Teton Wilderness not far south of Yellowstone. Wyoming Game and Fish recently completed their report on the fatality (full text here), and for…
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Hunting with style
Climbing writer Doug Robinson wrote (in paraphrase) that technology forces itself upon the landscape, while technique looks for a way through. Climbing is on matters of style an illustrative pairing for hunting, especially in the 21st century, where the later is on the cusp of a new wave of popularity which will likely substantially reinvent…
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Tiny Adventures
First things don’t happen for me at work all that often, but in one day last week I was called a nigger and filled out a police report. First things don’t happen too often, but the variations on the unexpected never end. Seven year olds are rarely able to articulate the despair and injustice which…
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Why I don’t write here anymore
You will all be aware that the gap between this post and the last is over a month, something which has recently become the rule, rather than in years past, the exception which never came. You all deserve to fully understand the reason for this, which is neither as obvious nor prosaic as it would…
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Thanks
In Montana the last day of the general/rifle deer, elk, and black bear season is the Sunday after Thanksgiving, which provides many folks with a last extended weekend and psyche-up. This year I was among them, and in the early afternoon Sunday trailed confused deer tracks across an open face; burnt sticks spaced across the…
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In passing
Yesterday I received an email from a reader informing me that Jason Hairston, founder of Kuiu and the most prominent American hunter of the past few years, had killed himself at home in California. At that point in the evening rumors had evidently just begun to circulate, and my post from last fall concerning Kuiu’s…
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Shit that works; lifestyle addition
The Wayback Machine doesn’t travel back to when I can first recall the concept of “lifestyle” in outdoor clothing and gear. It was a North Face catalogue, late 80s or early 90s, talking about a woman from Alaska or the Yukon or Wyoming or some similarly very far from Ohio place, who had fallen out…
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Panic in the Elkhorns
A few days ago I went for a bike ride, on many of the same trails featured in this video from last year. I didn’t bring a camera, and snapped only a few vague photos with my phone along the way, having no intention of discussing specifics. As I wrote last June But what I…
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Why Mike Lee is not full of it
A week ago the junior Senator* from Utah caused a good stir with a speech that all you readers ought to peruse, as it is both better and worse than the typical outpourings of press releases and 250 word “articles” have made it to be. I’ll pick some nits in conclusion, but it’s worth hopping…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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