Keep yourself clean and dry when you put on your chains
This time of year, it can go from sunny and beautiful to a torrential downpour at the drop of a boonie hat. And if it starts raining like it has lately, you’ll want that [...]
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Don’t forget the tire chains this time of year
My dad taught me the value of a good set of tire chains at a young age. I was probably eight years old, riding along with my dad on a spring bear hunt, and we got mired in [...]
A spring turkey hunt is a messy adventure
Going turkey hunting? You might want to take along your snow boots. As the last couple of weeks have shown, Wyoming’s springtime weather doesn’t usually follow the [...]
Welcome to the first day of spring!
My calendar says today’s the first day of spring. I can’t remember if that means spring actually started late last night, or if it doesn’t start until midnight tonight. [...]
Forget Daylight Saving Time, let’s do something useful
Instead of Daylight Saving Time, we should come up with some sort of Nice Weather Enjoyment time in the Rocky Mountain West. Spring may be a time of rebirth and renewal, but [...]
Get your fishing gear ready now
Pull the tackle box out of the closet, or bring it in from the garage. Make sure you have all the lures or flies you need. Take an inventory of your tackle, and make a list [...]
The bluebirds are back, so spring is on its way
I prefer to stay off the Interstates and take less populated roads when I drive across the state. There’s not always more to see on those back roads, but quite often there [...]
The days are too nice to be inside working
I don’t know how often I look out the window in the spring and wish I was out there, instead of being stuck inside, chained to a computer. That question actually came up in [...]
It’s about time to go camping — but be prepared to get wet
Each year, when school got out for the summer, my dad would haul the dusty old backpacking tent in from the barn and toss it on the living-room carpet. He’d announce that [...]
It’s actually too wet to shoot
I never thought there was such a thing as weather too bad to go shooting. But as I get older, and now that I own some acreage of my own, it turns out there is such a thing, [...]