Not just for the birds
Yesterday, Black Friday, Opt-Outside Friday, or whatever you want to call it, we got lost. Despite extensive research (okay, ten minutes on Google Earth) and years of hiking experience in the area, we ended up nowhere near where we thought we were going. It was cool. Here's a look: Leslie was more surprised than …
Our home in the country, Salubrious Basecamp as we affectionately call it, has seen a flurry of adventurous friends and family, hunters and non-hunters, visiting us the past couple of months, each of them wanting a chance to see what all the chukar hunting fuss is all about. We love that our visitors will take …
I'm nervous about this, but there is a point. Let me get to it. First, neither my wife nor anyone else's wife -- as far as I know -- has died on a chukar hunt. This whole thing started because some of my students learned I was a "YouTube" star (I disagree); for them, stardom …
"The lunar landscapes above and below the conifer forests that necklace western mountains, the "chukar hotels" (rock outcroppings used by birds), and the overwhelming panorama that negates any notion of supremacy man might harbor is witnessed only by a small percentage of hunters. Climbing defines hunting in the West. There was elation when, after a …
Sunlight lavishing brilliance Sunday, September Sunday ... Outdoors,Like an early page from The Appalachian Book of the Dead,Sunlight lavishes brilliance on every surface,Doves settle, surreptitious angels, on tree limb and box branch,A crow calls, deep in its own darkness,Something like water ticks onJust there, beyond the horizon, just there, steady clock ... Reading through some …