ONCE UPON A time, anthropologists somehow determined that the Eskimos have 50 different words for snow. Fishing guides and loggers have at least that many… Continue reading
IT WAS A dark and stormy night. Inside the cabin, the wood stove glowed red with venison stew simmering, fresh-baked biscuits and a whistling tea… Continue reading
THANK YOU FOR reading this. Writing our nation’s only wilderness gossip column is not easy. It took me years to become an overnight success with… Continue reading
MAYBE YOU’VE HAD one of those days. You wake up in the morning and everything hurts. None of your body parts seem to work. You… Continue reading
WHO SAYS THERE’S no good news? Lately, the co-managers of our natural resources have stumbled upon a unique method of dealing with a devastating threat… Continue reading
THIS TIME OF year brings back a lot of memories. These can be triggered by the smell of a driftwood fire on a river- bank,… Continue reading
I WON’T BORE you, dear reader(s), with the petty details of my ill-fated, underfunded hunt for Bigfoot that’s led to so much trouble. I could… Continue reading
THIS IS THE season of one of the greatest migrations on Earth happening right now. We’ve all heard of the epic flights of migrating waterfowl… Continue reading
OPENING DAY. IT’S a day when anything can happen. I was hoping, if for only a brief moment at sunrise, that this season could be… Continue reading
THIS MUST BE the best autumn weather in years. And just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, it did with the opening of… Continue reading
FALL MUST BE my favorite time of year. Could be because I like the rain? People who love rain are called Pluviophiles or Mossbacks, or… Continue reading
IN SEPTEMBER OF 1890, Pvt. Harry Fisher, a member of Lt. Joseph P. O’Neil’s U.S. Army expedition that had been sent to map the interior… Continue reading
THE SIGNS OF the impending season are unmistakable and should not be ignored. The vine maples are red. The cottonwood trees are yellow. The old… Continue reading
AUTUMN IS A beautiful time to enjoy the Olympic Peninsula. The changing colors of the leaves in the lowlands beneath a dusting of fresh snow… Continue reading
IT WAS DAYLIGHT on the water when I awakened to a nightmare that was all too real. A blurred vision on a pounding deck with… Continue reading
IT’S SUMMERTIME AND the fishing is easy. The fishing might not be any better than in the winter, but it never snows in summer and… Continue reading
ONE OF THE most popular questions that we in the trenches of the tourist industry routinely answer is, “Are cougars dangerous?” This is a perfectly… Continue reading
