The Hunt

Frustration at Jean K. Tool

A few days ago I watched an episode of Meat Eater where Steven Rinella took a ten-day trip to the Brooks Range in Northern Alaska to hunt moose. The Brooks Range is enormous and desolate. Their plane dropped them off at a small and incredibly isolated lake. They spent days glassing and only spotted one […]

Brower State Wildlife Area

I only became aware of Colorado’s State Wildlife Areas a couple weeks ago. I’ve lived in this state for close to five years, but I have done all my hunting on State Parks and National Forests. Both of these are primarily up in the mountains, so I hadn’t really found good hunting areas on the […]

Pawnee Grasslands

Finding a good area to hunt on public land can be very challenging. Where I live there is a lot of public land around (mostly national forest), but the closest spots to hunt are at least an hour away. It is easy to end up going back to the same spot over and over because […]

A Blustery Day in the Forest

Every day in the woods is difficult to predict; there are so many variables, so many things interwoven and in constant flux. This hunt I was wildly off in my predictions. The forecast called for abnormally high temperatures. In Boulder the high for the day was nearly sixty. Up in the mountains above it would […]