SkyLines Podcast

05/08/2022

are rad.

21/04/2022

Excerpt from podcast episode called Shooting Windows- I think. “By total chance, I'd already arrived inside bow range. The cow was below me, at a VERY steep angle. The first thing I needed to do was get an accurate range, given that I enjoyed this luxurious opportunity of being totally undetected. I was in the process of gripping my range finder with my left hand, while in my right I held my bow- with the mid shaft of my #1 arrow carefully perched between my first and second fingers like a cigarette.  As I was lifting the rangefinder from it's holster on my binocular strap, the cow's gaze shifted quickly, and from the back of her head I could tell she was perking up to something approaching her.”

20/04/2022

Big flies are fun to throw. The way the hit the water with a solid flap. The way they load a rod up and shoot fly line like mad. The resistance they push in the water and telegraph up the line to your stripping hand. The way they reveal the most aggressive fish I’m the pond.

05/04/2022

29/10/2021

So itchy for a deer hunting hall pass🤞

27/10/2021

It’s what’s for dinner.

02/10/2021

Another is in the books. It will take a while for me to properly spin all the fresh tales of adventure.

28/09/2021

The front of my quads burned hot while my calves and every muscle in my feet strained to control speed, traction and relative quiet as I tortured a slow motion run down the steep grade. I cussed the weight of my overloaded hunting pack, and my unbreakable habit of always stuffing it full like a 15 yr old diva packing for prom and vacation in a foreign land.

At a glance I could monitor the bulls activity and see he was still busy by the waving willow branches. When the branches stopped swaying, I froze as not to grab his ear or eye. A little over a hundred yards from the preoccupied bull I reached a fold of terrain that provided my first line-of-sight cover from the raking bull. As I stepped quickly, quietly and deliberately I pushed an arrow onto my string and focused on the point I estimated would allow a transition to the creek-bottom willows as adequate cover. From here I could again walk upright, and just a little farther I’d hit the bottom of my V-shaped approach and be safely downwind. No longer able to see the willow he was rubbing, I stopped and listened. It was quiet. My excitement sagged. But a moment later the racket of antlers on wood resumed.

Straining for high, quiet steps over the sage but a low profile too, I crested the fold of terrain like a tarantula and closed what would only be perhaps twenty yards before I’d reach line-of-sight and chip-shot distance to the bull. I was already inside 40 yards and the wall of silent willows had my complete confidence. I didn’t have time to stop and listen, too close now and the wind too stalled with the indecision of mid morning. Another step married to the one before. The bull must have been peering through a keyhole in wall of willows I trusted as my visual shield. Wide-eyed and probably feeling embarrassed, the sturdy 5x5 bull trotted up and over the hill from which he came. After this shaky video I hooked my camera back on my belt, wiped the sweat from my brow, and looked back up the steep canyon wall to where I’d been sitting, enjoying a piece of dried mango.

11/08/2021

That feeling. Is it deer? Or elk? Or salmon or steelhead? Perhaps a shed on the ground. Maybe turkeys. Possibly upland birds coaxing a heart attack? Doing real s**t in real places (as in public land and earning it on foot) is living life well. Those of us who know it, get it.

21/07/2021

I feel ya coming

15/07/2021

Non-typical doe antelope?!

12/07/2021

Who’s laughing now?

11/06/2021

Two-track mind. Elk and deer!

04/06/2021

Rather odd habitat for antelope, and lot of radness to take in from one spot!

31/05/2021

Hey there fella.

28/05/2021

Antelope are cool.

27/05/2021

Summer vibes. demonstrates.

26/05/2021

Real life roller coaster. A motorcycle can be so many different things depending what kind it is, where and how you ride it. Your own imagination and a bike can really take you places, like nothing else.

17/04/2021

Big mouths on the (home brew) fly.

12/04/2021

Hamburgers!!!??? photo

09/04/2021

Turn-ons include: Full moon dinners alone in the dark.

06/04/2021

Grand memory of in Baja with a few years back.

30/03/2021

New boots, blisters, bandages, tuna and string cheese.

29/03/2021

Good. Clean. Living.

22/03/2021

Picabo.

19/03/2021

WineO

16/03/2021

02/03/2021

01/03/2021

Skylines Adventure Podcast episode 14