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…

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…

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Jumpy Junior

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

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…

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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…

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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…

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Christmas cooking

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

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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…

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The phases of hiking uphill

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

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Life finds a way

This past weekend, instead of in the woods camping or sitting in a deer stand, I was waiting…