Category: Field Notes

After four generations of packing into the Bitterroot, we have a short, honest list. Most of what gets stuffed in a pack never earns its weight.

September turns the Bitterroot from quiet to loud. Here is how the elk rut actually unfolds across the month, and how to hunt each stretch of it.

The hardest part of an ethical hunt is not the shot. It is the decision, made often, to not take it. That decision is the whole point.

A high basin can sit dead for three days and break open in three minutes. Patience is not a virtue out here — it is the whole strategy.