Many years ago, on my first mountain biking trip to Moab, I was standing on the
top of a crazy steep rock face, dotted with paint that clearly indicated the
trail. It looked
I have been fly fishing for just about 2 years, and within this particularly passionate world that means I am basically a beginner. Fortunately, I feel like a beginner, even in terms of understanding why I like to fish at all.
When I decided to take up fly fishing I knew, with no exaggeration, almost nothing about it. No one who knows me will be surprised to learn that I started with the gear: rod lengths, weights and flex, reels, lines, nets, flies, packs…
If you work at a job, in an office, you know the general refrain about Mondays
being the worst days. And if you had an especially excellent weekend doing your
favorite things, it
There are some very good reasons to creep around in the woods: mushroom hunting,
bird watching, berry picking… or maybe just looking for a private spot to pee.
It can be very unnerving,