by Dylan Tomine - Friday, Jul 8th, 2022
The river is going out. Big time. Sure, it’s been raining since the helicopter dropped us off six days ago and seventeen miles upriver, but only enough to ensure that everything we own is wet. A week of dripping tents, soggy sleeping bags, and wrinkled fingers isn’t so bad when the river’s green.
by Ryan Fries - Thursday, Jun 16th, 2022
I've always thrived on learning off the cuff, being thrown to the wolves, sink or swim.
Back in the mid-90's I interviewed for a magnet crane operator job at a steel plant. I was clueless.
The head supervisor asked me, "Hey, you got any experience working with 5 ton plates of steel?".
"Not at all." I admitted. "Give me a chance though and I'll figure it out."by Todd Tanner - Wednesday, Jun 8th, 2022
My fly fishing is starting to rust. That’s never a good thing when you’re in love with your angling.
I’ll get back to the rust in a minute. First, though, I wanted to share a few things I’ve noticed over the years.
by Chris Hunt - Thursday, May 26th, 2022
Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder
I'm an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late
I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass
I made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast
Never meant to last, never meant to last
—Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks at 40
by Mike Sepelak - Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
No one will look at the elephant. No one will speak of it though it sits just outside the front window of the Dalwhinnie, all gray and dank and dour, staring in at us as we gather for breakfast. Heads down in our eggs, our coffee, our phones, we try to ignore it, knowing full well that every man around the table knows that it’s out there and that knowledge is killing us.
God it was ugly.
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