Reason #4532 why jail sucks

You can spend three days shoveling the snow from an entire stadium,

but you still don't get to stay and watch the game.

Sign

Good hunters notice sign. Sometimes we pick it up to find it is still warm. But sign comes in many forms and not all of it is subtle

A damn good sign close to your elk camp



Sign of a damn big bear



Sign of a damn big bull



Sign of a damn big lion



Just a damn funny sign

Season of the Shroom

One of the great advantages of moving slowly and quietly through the Fall woods for most of a week is that it gives a fellow time to enjoy the mycology

Elk Camp

When Clyde drew a coveted tag this spring and asked if I would go in with him, there was no hesitation. Yes. We hauled in a back-country camp on our backs in the rain yesterday. Dad came along for the hike. It was a stormy day high on a wild, windswept ridge and he couldn't resist the adventure of it all. Tent, water, stove, fuel and some food are ready for next weekend. Saw some big bulls and a beautiful jet-black bear. We're camped on the top of the world, next to some of the best elk habitat in the neighborhood. It's beautifully rough county. I'm glad there are horses on stand-by if we get lucky, because there are some damn awful places in there to put that much meat on the ground.

Give a boy a glue gun,,

and alien robots will come down to invade earth.

The creative force is strong with this one, Luke.

Fall is getting off to a very good start!

Already?!?

Summer is over already!?!

The list of things I wanted to do this summer was way longer than the list of things that got done, but I guess that is par for life on earth.

Life seems to be about balance:

Did some camping
Didn't do any backpacking

Did float the GR and the Snake
Didn't float the Salmon

Did play at the cabins of three different friends
Didn't get to the ocean

Did get pulled in a tube by a boat
Didn't wet a water ski.

Did some fly fishing
Didn't bring my fly rod home in the same number of pieces

Did have some great evenings paddling w/ my lover
Didn't get to linger anywhere for very long

Did get each boat out at least twice
Didn't get the ropes out once.

Best quote of the summer: "There must be a metric shitload of fish in this river"

Steelhead are coming, I have my elk tag and a very special deer tag in hand, but the bird dog is fat.


The glory of September can linger deep into October, and we are already talking about skiing around here.