Our man Greg Hill hit his goal of 2 million feet of vert for 2010. (As of yesterday afternoon. He did another 1500 ft. lap after our photographer Tommy Chandler snapped this pic, and he’s planning a few more today.) Next year? 2 billion vertical feet. Better get started now.
Congrats Greg! And Happy New Year [...]
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December 31st, 2010
Greg Hill Hits 2 Million Feet of Vert for the Year
December 31st, 2010
Trek Light Picks: The Best Albums of 2010
Last year’s post on my favorite albums of 2009 got a lot more traffic than I expected and amazingly I started getting asked about the 2010 edition pretty much as soon as December rolled around. As I…
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Local Rescue Climbers at Devil’s Tower
Budget cuts have meant that Devil’s Tower National Monument in Wyoming can’t afford to keep climbing rangers on year round. Of course, inexperienced climbers don’t stop showing up on the last day of the season. So what happens when a few kids on their winter break from college get stuck? They call in the locals…anyone [...]
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Chairlift Breakdown at Whiteface Mountain
Another East Coast chairlift broke down yesterday requiring 76 people to be evacuated from a lift at Whiteface Mountain near Lake Placid. They were lowered via a rope and pulley system, and the operation that took from about 11am until 12:45pm. While that’s a long time to wait for one run, I bet it was [...]
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More detail on ATF long gun multiple sales reports
The press conference makes it clear the requests are being made as “letter” requests… in the past, ATF had used this power with regard to one or a few dealers, for particularized reasons. Here, they are using it as to…
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Happy New Year and Some Nascent Plans For The Nascent Year
Yeah… sometimes I just like to use neglected language. Like nascent. Anyway, it’s New Year’s Eve (duh), and I know a lot of folks are planning their resolutions. Personally, I gave up on that concept years ago, but it is a fun way to think about goals for the future… what is it about myself [...]
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Christmas Eve Surprise
This beautiful 10 pointer (looks like it would have been a perfect 12 next season) was taken on Christmas Eve by Eric Lawler.
A few weeks earlier Eric had trail cam pictures of the buck and he knew it would be hard to connect during shooting hours w…
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A Surprise Goat Appearance
The Goat pops into a Daily Camera article about a Colorado man starting his own magazine. What’s the hook? Well, just check out the article and scroll down a bit for our Goat friend.
Thanks Ryan
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Ruling on right to arms and DV cases
United States v. Chester, handed down by the Fourth Circuit today. Defendant had been convicted of firearm possession after a misdemeanor DV conviction, and appealed. The Fourth Circuit initially vacated the conviction in an unpublished opinion that rejected the argument…
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Happy News Year From The Wildlife Pro Network & Sites By Robb
Happy News Year From The Wildlife Pro Network & Sites By Robb Here we are on the brink of another year. We can use this opportunity to reflect over the past year, or to ponder the future. We are looking towards the Year 2011 optimistically and hoping to make 2011 a very good year.We wish you [...]
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December 14 Hunt
It was about a week later when I got another chance to hunt and with similar conditions to the night I skewered my doe I went back to essentially the same spot. This time I chose a tree a little farther down the hill to where the 2 bucks had walked along the creek ditch, [...]
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First AL BowKill of the Year!
Alright, I’m having to take you back a ways because I am so backed up on updates, but that’s good for you the reader because that means plenty of new material headed down the pipes. We will pick up the action on January 6th. It was a very windy afternoon which meant I could crowd [...]
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Buck Scoring Contest, Round III
by Dave Hurteau 
And now, the third buck in our scoring contest. On the frosty dawn of November 5th in southeastern Minnesota while hunting with friends Scott Bestul and Mark Stimets, I heard crackling hoofsteps in the crystalline leaf litter behind me. This fine buck in the photo below was trotting right to my bow stand. Reflecting, however, on the many, many Midwestern giants on my wall already, I lowered my bow and I coolly shooed the buck in the direction of Mark’s stand. And like all mature whitetails, it did exactly what I expected it to. Mark arrowed it at 20 paces. For whatever reason, he has forgotten to thank me.
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Snowmobilers Falls Down the Rabbit Hole
A Canadian snowmobiler fell about 100 feet down a mine shaft that had been covered over with snow while he was riding in British Columbia. By the time he spotted the mine shaft it was too late. He tried to gun his machine over the open mine but ended up taking a fall. The shaft [...]
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Cram Time: Two Major Climbing Grants Due Friday
And your parents said you’d never use that degree in comparative cultural studies with an emphasis on BS. Now’s the time to marshal your talents and work hard for a couple days so that you can take the next year off. Sure, maybe it’s hard to live on the $7k per year you get from [...]
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Final Days Afield
It’s a beautiful morning in the snow covered woods as I type this from my treestand over looking a feeding area along a ridge.
Tomorrow brings the close of the Westchester season and leaves me with almost as many tags as I started with.
Th…
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One Doesn’t Expect To Meet Moose On A Paved Bike Path
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Good News and Bad News for Backcountry Skiing Near Aspen
A backcountry stash that’s been a popular spot for skiers and snowboarders to lap using their snowmobiles will become a motor-free zone shortly. The park service will ban snowmobiles at Richmond Hill near Aspen. Good news for backcountry skiers, bad news for snowmobile dealerships.
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December 30th, 2010
Should Auld Acquaintance Be Shot?
That title makes about as much sense as anything in my cold-addled brain this morning. Somehow or another, I’ve gone through most of the week without a post, and here it is the end of 2010! How did that happen? Seems like spring was just here, summer was a blur, hunting season came and went, [...]
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Ohio Resident Bags Buck
My next door neighbor here in Florida traveled home to Ohio last month for the deer season. I got a call last night, followed by this photo of Jim’s success. Congratulations! Related ArticlesBlack Boxes, Nimrods, Counting Deer And Deer Management (3)Maine Will Count Deer (6)John Holyoke: Maine’s Deer Season A Success? (4)Late Season Buck Taken [...]
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We The People
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Another Dead Buck
A tough end to the Missouri firearms season for me yesterday. I passed on a young 8 and several does but the only mature buck I saw was the guy above. He looks like a solid 3.5 year old 8 point in the 130ish range. I’ve really started to enjoy the muzzleloader. I spent about [...]
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Wildlife Encounter in the Urban Jungle
I work in downtown Raleigh but I do have the occasional wildlife encounter despite the urban setting. Today I had a pretty cool one when I saw a Red Shoulder Hawk capture a gray squirrel. I was able to capture the hawk feeding on the squirrel after I retrieved my flip camera. Dark bands on [...]
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Food: Telling the Truth Early
She loves magazines. She loves them so much that she often takes them to bed with her; you can hear here flipping through the pages before she finally falls asleep. And though she doesn’t truly know how to read yet, she still loves looking through the pages, pointing out things she knows, and asking what [...]
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Tom Anderson: Sandpoint Outfitters Radio Interview w/Scott Rockholm
This is a radio interview of Tom Anderson of Sandpoint Outfitters with Scott Rockholm on KSPT. The show aired live on December 28, 2010 at noon Mountain Time. This is the best quality audio to hear. It’s in “wave” format. If you are having difficulty streaming it, I hope to have a compressed version up [...]
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Carbon Monoxide at Snowshoe Mountain
It’s turning out to be a rough week for East Coast ski resorts. You throw a couple feet of snow into the normal rotation of ice/rain and it really messes up their game. On the heel’s of yesterday’s lift derailment at Sugarloaf, officials at Snowshoe Mountain Resort in West Virginia had an announcement of their [...]
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Pataclimb.com: Online Guide for Patagonia Climbing
Pataclimb is an online guide and scoreboard for climbers heading to the region. A pair of friends, Rolo Garibotti and Doerte Pietron are running the project after ages of climbing in Patagonia, and their goal is to keep a running list of what’s been done and also include just enough information for climbers who want [...]
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Ohio Sup Ct upholds pre-emption law
City of Cleveland v. State of Ohio, Ohio Supreme Court, Dec. 29, 1010. Conflict between Cleveland’s enactment of a number of gun regulations, and Ohio’s statewide pre-emption law. The City contended that the pre-emption law was unconstitutional under the State…
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