Category: Hunting
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Hunt small
I am tired. It’s been a long, good year full of trips and with little respite between projects. My legs are still willing, most of the time, but my mind needs a solid month of nothing in particular: no goals hanging over me. That will not come until December 2nd, the day the big game…
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Deciding the future
Later today M and I leave south. We’ll be spending two full weeks in southern Utah. While there we want to pick where we’ll spend the next three or so decades. Some, or many, of you may not know that we got married and lived in the Colorado Plateau. Before she started hanging out with…
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Make your year long
Yesterday morning I woke up in one of my best camps of the year. After a frustrating day stalking and glassing all over a series of hillsides and bottoms I retreated to the edge of a meadow near a major creek confluence to see what might come in the last hour of daylight. It was…
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Clarity
I’ve been waiting for this trip for a long time. It’s a perfect plan: hunt your way upriver from the Meadow Creek trailhead, shoot something, and float it back out. At the low levels of autumn Salmon Forks down is floatable, and aside from a few shallow riffles and two rapids, everything is runnable in…
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30s and raining: some suggestions
30s and raining is the toughest weather to manage sustainably. What follows are some ideas for how to do so, in vague order of importance. -Don’t put your rain jacket on until you have to. “Have to” can be defined as the point where you’ll be getting wet enough from exterior sources that maintaining core…
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A new schoolhouse
I was talking with a client the other day about the virtues of being a beginner, and how wonderful it is to be in a position to learn new things every time. The downside of this can be in the doing; the painful process of finding out the mistakes you made earlier. Early autumn in…
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Autumnal shoe roundup
The time of shallow snow, snain, and hourly freeze/thaw cycles is upon us. Check your shoes. Caveat for all of this is that the shoes gotta fit ya. Check the links to older posts for more extensive discussion. The Boulder X Mid continued to impress through our rather short summer snow climbing season. They’re the…
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A Spotted Bear elk hunt
I’ve gotten bored with backpacking. Not with the act of backpacking, but with the learning. The point of diminishing returns with reference to reading and the practice of trial and error has been passed. Time to find something else. Which is why elk and deer hunting this fall has been the number one priority all…
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Packing for an elk hunt
I’m headed out in the Bob tomorrow with my stepdad for six days chasing elk. Weather is supposed to be pretty good; lows in the high 30s, highs in the low 80s, maybe a bit of rain. Here’s what I’m bringing. Remington 700 in .30-06, 3-9×40 Leupold, all the trimmings. Detachable sling and Kifaru Gunbearer…
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The same pack all over again
It occurs to me that since I started doing this four years ago, most of my packs have been the same. After all, most everyone needs a solid big pack. Each iteration represents more learning on how to best meet the same demands. The pack bag weighs 25 ounces as shown above, the modified Gossamer…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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