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A NEW STANDARD... GUEST POST BY HAL WALTER
Eastman’s Hunting Journal
Check out issue 143 of Eastman’s Hunting Journal (Elk Addition). There is an article that features burros in the back-country!
Close Enough to Perfect: A Guest Post by Paul Vertrees
Each year my mind wanders from tenkara fly fishing to hunting. It gains intensity during September as small game season nears around the first of October. I usually sneak in an extended backpacking weekend of “Surf ‘N Turf” (mountain small game combined with tenkara trout) just prior to the start of the first big game season. I hunt mule deer, pronghorn antelope, and elk during the rifle seasons in my home state, almost exclusively in federally designated wilderness. The wilderness I hunt most often is an area just a mile from my boyhood home that I’ve been frequenting most of...
Peaceful, Easy Feeling FEBRUARY 10, 2014
It had rained all afternoon and most of the night. I was camped along a little spring fed mountain valley about 7 miles into a Colorado wilderness area at 10,250 above sea level. When I left for my morning elk hunt it looked like it was going to be a bluebird day. Before leaving I took the turnout blankets off my burros so they could dry out and not get too hot in the sun. I came back into camp around lunchtime. The sun was shining and the temps were in the upper 60’s, a beautiful day. One of my...
Nature’s Gifts
On a cloudless, moonless night in October I camped on the open prairie of northwestern South Dakota. Not far from where I pitched my tent the Lakota had conducted the last known wild bison hunt over 100 years before. I was so remote that at night there wasn’t a visible light in any direction over the rolling grassland. No lights except the millions of brilliant stars that were so bright I did not need a flashlight to see. The stars stretched from one horizon to the other. I had never seen the Milky Way in all its glory as I...
