So there I was, crouching quietly in a tree house hand crafted by my father, high up on a hill in the woods. I sat, waited and listened for it to rear its sharp, pointy antlers. No, I’m not talking about some imaginary hell beast, but rather a large buck. I loved to spy [...]
When I used to go hunting with my dad, we paid very little attention to what hunting guns we used. We had had the same hunting rifles in the family for at least a generation or two, and we figured that they worked well enough. My hunting gun was a single shot bolt action [...]
I love going to the hot springs more than anything else. I live in California, so I am close to several hot sulfur springs in the area. Although there are a lot of people who find the smell of a sulfur hot spring objectionable, I have definitely gotten used to it. Putting up with [...]
I had not expected helicopter rides to be exactly my kind of fun. I don’t like having my feet leave the ground. I fly because it is the most convenient way to get from here to there, but that doesn’t mean that I like it. Why would I go take a helicopter tour? The [...]
If you’re a skier, you’ve heard about K2 skis. The K2 brand was the first fiberglass ski made in the United States, the product of one innovative man’s efforts. In 1961, Bill Kirschner borrowed a pair of skis to use as a pattern for his ski design, made of fiberglass. His prototype performed so [...]
Since I was little, I have been fascinated with maps and globes. I guess this is a common interest for many little kids. Looking at a map and globe is like having the whole world in miniature. Kids love to play make believe games. If the make believe games you [...]
I have run an Alaska fishing lodge for several years and in all of that time, no two days, and no two clients for that matter, are like. Everyone comes up here with a different idea of what they want out of their Alaska fishing adventure. Honestly, I prefer the ones who [...]
A good internal frame backpack is really a necessity for any modern camper. Although there has been a good deal of debate over the years about the virtues of an internal frame backpack, versus those of an external frame backpack, I really think that the choice is clear. For almost anyone, doing almost [...]
When I was a little kid, I used to dream of sailing around the world. My dad used to get a sailing magazine which had a lot of coverage of single handed sailing races. There was one in particular that really captured my imagination, because every skipper would have to sail completely alone. They [...]
Growing up in the suburbs of Detroit, I really had little contact with all terrain vehicles. They just simply were not the kind of thing that the people around me were into, so I did not really get a chance to try one out for myself until I moved away and went off to [...]
