Welcome, from the other side of the state with way fewer people! Starting a family and rolling your own hunting partners can be a great way to go. My son and I are headed to Canada for moose this fall.
I'm a fan of the Black Hills since I grew up there. You could spend all summer and not see everything. Some rainy-day sleeper places that don't get much press are the geology/paleontology museum at SD Mines and the cavalry museum at Ft. Meade. Congestion shouldn't be bad in May, it really ramps...
Meat loaf on the smoker is yummy. You make the rolls smaller and don't bother with a pan so the smoke gets in, like two-three inches diameter. They look a little, umm, weird..."There's a Baby Ruth in the pool!" but man they're tasty.
For burgers, I've been blending my breakfast sausage with my...
Since CO can't seem to follow CA fast enough in so many ways, I enjoy waiving around CA data in the face of some of the more ridiculous CO propositions.
CA lion depredation data 2010-2020
https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=177513&inline
From 2015-2020, now well after banning...
Predator swamping is a political phenomenon as well as biological. They blast out a bazillion crazy bills hoping some get missed. Thanks for those links!
Got some Phonak bluetooth ones through the VA a few years back. I should have gotten them way sooner, I had no idea everything I was missing. Besides the wind, the only downside is my daughter figured out the bluetooth phone tether thing and sometimes walks past my phone and says "Hey google...
What a mess. My cousin's house was spared but houses a couple doors down on either side burned to the ground. They had moved, a couple years ago, out of the Boulder foothills in no small part due to the frequent fires and evacuations. Mesa County even sent people over last night to help. We...
Not hunting but fishing...Barbie and Spiderman fishing poles. Especially for ice fishing those are our go-to poles. We just find the bottom with a clip-on weight, set the $0.13 bobber to hold the bait just a hair above the bottom, and hand-over-hand the fish out of the hole when the bobber goes...
I cringe at the airport subplot the way many of you guys do at the show's "ranching." In this day and age, it would be more realistic to propose a land grab for a sasquatch preserve. Still can't not watch though, kind of like the Sopranos, there is no good guy.
Live for him, man, I'm sure he wouldn't want you moping. Glad you're here. I have one of those too. It's not really a day to celebrate but it's not a day that can be forgotten. Drive on.
I do transportation planning for my day job, Onx has both amazed a few civil servants and saved a lot of time in various meetings. It's a fun parlor trick to throw the tablet out on the table in and introduce them to all the project's neighbors.
Oh, I am absolutely a fan of OnX, it is a very powerful tool. I just don't think it should be treated as the whole toolkit. I remember back in the day transposing property ownership from the orange BLM maps onto USGS quad topo maps with pencil and scales. Modern GPS beats the heck out of all...
PSA…OnX is not always correct. My buddies and I encountered a few other hunters this season who were not at all happy about us driving our atv’s on trails where we’ve driven them for years. Turns out the BLM still shows these routes open to motorized traffic, just like their latest Resource...