Escape Velocity
I’ve been feeling uneasy. It’s been this way, more or less, for over a year. I went into last upland season feeling rushed and…
Days Afield
The Baseline Hike
Climbing mountains, the only way to really know how bad climbing mountains with heavy packs is gonna be. And getting the young Setter, Hawk,…
Challenges
Every time one of these birds comes to hand, it’s an affirmation of the core elements that can make life grand — hope, effort,…
Planning for the 2022 Upland Season
We are on verge of another upland season. Though preliminary plans started taking shape the the final days of the 2021 season, now is…
What do goats think about hills?
I don’t know much about Mountain Goats. I’m sure there is plenty of published information that could get me past the learning curve. But,…
Good Deeds in Badlands
I’m at camp making a final assessment of gear and doing one last pack as final preparation to embark on an overland bike bird…
The Last Bird: Living in the Upland Death Spiral
Most of the upland birds around here vanished during the Storm of the Century that dumped 30 inches of snow atop a base of…
Picking Up Right Where We Fell Apart
Bird seasons come and go. Most of the time I try to not think about the start and end dates because there’s always a…
Don’t Yell Rooster, Save Lives
There’s a tradition shared among many fledgling pheasant hunters of marching across fields in long ranks. The fresh blaze-clad neophytes evenly spaced so that…
The Journey
I learned to bird hunt with friends — we weren’t reading about it or seeing it online or in social posts because there wasn’t…