Last fall my dogs and I traveled to Idaho to try our hand at chasing chukar. We joined a few friends early one morning along a river on public lands, set up our camp, and made ready for our first ascent. A friend and I trailed my two shorthairs up an extreme vertical chute. We…
This season I will be joining Ultimate Upland’s crew in Idaho for some backcountry upland hunting. As I prepare for the trip I can’t help but think about provisions for this physically challenging hunt. Days spent climbing up the mountains chasing after chukar can leave you calorie deficit pretty quick. So to combat that I…
When I hunt alone, which is often the case, there’s a certain ritual to leaving the truck. It’s become habit without much thought anymore. This invisible checklist guards against hiking miles from the truck and realizing I’m without shells, water, remotes or worse. It’s this same reason everything has an assigned place in the truck,…