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The Snow Closes the Pass at Noon and Tries to Starve You to Death. Now Keep Everybody Alive Until It Opens.
The Snow Starts at Noon and Stops Being Weather It begins as a dry whisper against the canvas, early November, 1846, somewhere on the eastern slope o…
16 hours ago
I Almost Shot an Injured Coyote Over a Dozen Chickens the Raccoons Were Killing
The Coyote I Was Sure Did It When my neighbor Marge called me across the street and said her hens were getting picked off, I did what every guy with …
19 hours ago
I Hunted 200 Days and Saw Nothing Because I Wouldn’t Sit Still
For fifteen years I told myself I was bad at deer hunting. That was the whole explanation. I’d put in over two hundred days in the woods across four …
21 hours ago
The Snow Closes the Pass at Noon and Tries to Starve You to Death. Now Keep Everybody Alive Until It Opens.
The Snow Starts at Noon and Stops Being Weather It begins as a dry whisper against the canvas, early November, 1846, somewhere on the eastern slope o…
21 hours ago
I Got Territorial Over a Moose I Would Never Own and It Almost Cost Me the Tag
I Got Territorial Over a Moose I Wouldn’t Own The tag was the kind you wait a decade for. Archery-only moose, drawn in the zone I happen to live in. …
1 day, 19 hours ago
I Found a Lump on My Doe and Almost Threw Away Sixty Pounds of Perfect Meat
I pulled a lump off the doe the size of a shooter marble and held it up to the flashlight like it was going to tell me something. It didn’t. It just …
1 day, 21 hours ago
Amos’s Diary: Saturday, November 14, 1903
Five pages filled now, and Amos went back to a weeknight instead of a Sunday, cause a poor man’s religion lives in the woods as much as it ever lived…
2 days, 13 hours ago
I Froze My Own Kid in a Tent and Blamed the Weather
I froze my own kid on a Cub Scout camping trip last weekend and it took me three days to admit the mattress did it. Not the sleeping bags. Not the we…
2 days, 21 hours ago
I Killed Two Trout I Couldn’t Keep, and Nobody Told Me Catch and Release Was a Skill
Two dead rainbow trout on a stringer I wasn’t even supposed to have. That’s how my Tuesday after work ended, standing on the bank of a stocked creek …
3 days, 19 hours ago
I Could Not Send the Arrow This Season, and the Deer Came Back Anyway
I have hunted deer since I was eight years old, which means I have hunted through every kind of season a man can have. Wet ones, dry ones, broke ones…
3 days, 21 hours ago