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Fires for cooking, cheer, cameraderie, songs, sure. There are a million reasons why fire is neat on a wilderness trip.And then, there comes a time when fire actually counts for something more.Like this dark,…
My fly box is filled with soft-hackled flies, and my favorite way to fish them is in the surface film during a hatch. I like to dress the fly with a very, very light…
Sometimes we forget that trail maintenance in Wilderness Areas, like travel in Wilderness Areas, is non-motorized.That means trail crews are using cross-cut saws and axes.It warms my heart whenever I run across an axe-cut…
If you follow me on Twitter, you'll know that I've been hinting about an ultralight .22LR rifle - the 21 oz Pak-Rifle designed by Josh Leavitt (Josh and his father, Doug, being of Titanium…
Photo: Alpenglow reflected from Notch Mountain and into Clyde Lake in the Western Uintas. Olympus E-P1, m.Zuiko 14-42mm, f/22 1/2.5 sec @ 14mm.