FILED IN: Experience
Filed In: Culture, Dog, Experience, Hunt, The Sporting Life
Full disclosure: I’m a dyed-in-the-wool duck hunter from the Midwest. Nothing makes me happier than a mud-stanky Lab’s tail beating out a 4/4 rhythm on my leg with the clouds......
Filed In: Culture, Drink, Experience, Lodge, Toasting the Hunt, Vineyard, Wine, Winery
Situated on 80 pristine acres in St. Helena, California, a town whose motto is “the heart of Napa Valley,” The Napa Valley Reserve may literally be just that: the very......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, Experience, Hunt, The Sporting Life
In the first blush of a fine spring morning, Linda Baker, director of the Upper Green River Alliance, and I disembarked from her truck in Wyoming’s 7-million-acre Upper Green River......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
Each year, a certain autumn day breaks and slips over the Connecticut River, covering the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont with morning light. It is the beginning of a reunion for......
Filed In: Experience, Memories, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
I met Mike when I moved back to River City after completing medical training. He sold medical equipment–everything one needed to set up practice. A quintessential salesman, loquacious and voluble......
Filed In: Culture, Dog, Experience, International, Sporting, The Sporting Life, Travel
The dog dropped on point somewhere in the wheat, leaving a void in the place he had been. A moment before, there had been a wind-blown Belton setter there, a......
Filed In: Bird, Culture, Experience, Lodge, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
Bird Camp is an eagerly anticipated annual pilgrimage, now in its ninth year. The players have remained the same, except for Brian Fay (the Counselor), who dropped out after the......
Filed In: Experience, Habitat, On the Hunt, The Sporting Life
There are times every bird season when I sneak out on my own to enjoy the woods Robert Frost called “lovely, dark and deep.” These are special days when time......
Filed In: Experience, Memories, People, Stories, The Sporting Life
It was half past noon and the day was sad and gray like the underside of a bat’s wing. The drizzling sky stretched unending from horizon to horizon and made......
Filed In: Culture, Experience, Lodge, The Sporting Life, Travel
Nestled behind the famed Cumberland Island National Seashore and established by automobile pioneer Howard Coffin in 1928 as a sanctuary for international sportsmen, Cabin Bluff has to be considered on...
