I did some spring cleaning recently. A primary objective was to clear out an old dresser in the spare room that had been serving as storage for all of the…
I never had much use for waders in my youth. When the boys went fly fishing, we slipped our wallets in plastic bags and braved the cold water until our…
March and April are weird months for me in general. Nothing going on, really. Bird season is over and I’m fresh off our annual javelina hunt. Most days, it’s usually…
You may know that wonderful feeling when first viewing a valley that is so beautiful it almost takes your breath away. That is how I felt when I first laid…
I’ve written previously about my love for bombing around the bajadas of the Sonoran desert in a clapped-out old Toyota in pursuit of the mysterious and, thankfully, largely under-appreciated skunk…
I made my first camp at the trailhead 100 yards from an abandoned mining cabin in the national forest. It was a beautiful Great Basin Halloween night as the flicker…
The Ford V-8. The Dust Bowl. Hiroshima and the atom bomb. The birth of rock and roll and the death of The King. Vietnam. Watergate. Punk rock. Desert storm.The dot-com…
It’s common knowledge among avid upland hunters that game birds follow boom-or-bust cycles that are largely dependent on the habitat and climatic conditions in their home range. You can add…