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Way Upland Season IV

Way Upland Season IV Episode 2

Battling unseasonably high temperature approaching 80º while trying to get everyone accustomed to low oxygen at high altitude. The bird dogs are managing, even…

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Way Upland Season IV

Way Upland Season IV Episode 1

The season has arrived, time for legs and lungs to start firing. Doing a few acclimation and scouting hikes, looking for flat ground, verifying…

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Escape Velocity
Days Afield

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…

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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,…

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Pheasant Casserole
Game Bird Recipes, Pheasant Hunting

Buffalo Phez Mac N Cheez

Came up with this recipe while we were hunting in the late season and pulled it together for a camp dinner. That initial round…

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Bird in Hand
Days Afield, Sharptail Hunting

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,…

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No Birds
Bird Hunting Destinations, Days Afield

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…

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Bang Bang Pheasant Recipe
Recipe

Bang Bang Pheasant

Went out to eat a few weeks ago and ended up sharing a Bang Bang Shrimp appetizer. Jotted a quick note in my phone…

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Lake Erie Lobster Skewer
Recipe

Lake Erie Lobster Tail

In between training dogs, gardening and the typical activities of the 0ff-season we’ve managed to get out and do little bit of fishing. It’s…

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Garlic Mac N Cheese
Recipe

Garlicky Phez Mac ‘n Cheese

Maybe you didn’t have the best luck last weekend and birds were tough to come by. Don’t throw that one pheasant you harvested in…

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Colorado Mountain Goats
Days Afield

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,…

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Way Upland Season II

Way Upland Season II Episode 10

River Crossing, Racing Thunderstorms and Sharptail Lasagna in the Backcountry. Maybe one of my favorite days on the trail: nice ride, great camp, lucky…

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Way Upland Season II

Way Upland Season II Episode 9

The bike is repaired and the heat breaks so we head back on trail to continue our trip across the North Dakota badlands. On…

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Way Upland Season II

Way Upland Season II Episode 8

I’ve said bird hunting karma exists BUT this episode proves it. We break a bike chain over two miles from a road and have…

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Way Upland Season II

Way Upland Season II Episode 7

Back on the trail at sunrise to try and beat the crazy heat. The quicksand that Roosevelt talks about in his biography, we find…

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Way Upland Season II

Way Upland Season II Episode 6

Seems like we’ve made it out of the Missouri River basin and are alone on this stretch of the Buffalo Gap Trail. We’re seeing…

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Way Upland Season II

Way Upland Season II Episode 5

After adjusting caches and modifying the plan, the support team is headed for home ( Alex from APT Outdoors) leaving us alone on the…

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Way Upland Season II

Way Upland Season II Episode 4

Alex and I have passed the 30 mile mark, BUT we’re slowly roasting on the Maah Daah Hey while the heat and dehydration adds…

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Way Upland Season II

Way Upland Season II Episode 3

Faced with crazy hot weather and very little surface water, we’re lucky to run into some horseback riders on this trail who share info…

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Way Upland Season II

Way Upland Season II Episode 2

We pack up camp and head back on the trail, but water is starting to become an issue. Even though we are running dehydrated…

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