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Tales of the Hunts

No, my dogs don’t want to meet your dogs

Thirteen years ago, my wife and I decided that on top of starting a career, buying a home ... Read more

Tales of the Hunts

Enjoy the view before you take a picture

In the nineties, I’m sure you had a family member or a close friend who would be behind ... Read more

Tales of the Hunts

Jumpy Junior

Our youngest lab, Junior, has many great qualities. For a two-year-old lab, he is a joy to have ... Read more

Yards to Paradise- Max Phelps

Gerald the Opossum 

If you spend enough time outdoors, you are going to be surprised by an animal. Snakes are the ... Read more

Tales of the Hunts

Sherpa shenanigans 

In college, high-altitude mountaineering monopolized my daydreams. The science behind human beings surviving where trees could not boggled ... Read more

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Seventeen fish is enough

Becoming an angler is not age-dependent. You can catch your first fish at age two or 92 and ... Read more

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Raising weird kids 

On the morning of New Year’s Eve, I was wading waist-deep through a swamp with a retriever following ... Read more

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Christmas cooking

While Thanksgiving rules the roost in the holiday cooking world, Christmas in our household gives our family a ... Read more

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Retrievers reminiscing 

We are a three-dog household and have been for a few years. Our original two, Hank the yellow ... Read more

Tales of the Hunts

The phases of hiking uphill

After Thursday’s festivities and food, you may be thinking of a way to get outside to negate the ... Read more