2018 – Looking back


2018 was a good year but a tough year in several respects and I’m actually kind of glad this one is over with.   Thanks to Lira I hiked close to 2000 miles this year and we managed to get out and do quite a bit of fishing and hunting, logging 108 days total in the water, hills or fields.   I also somehow managed to build a boat for the sole purpose of taking her fishing with me since she coludn’t quite work out in a float tube.   Catherine and I had a lot of fun spending many days exploring the Middle Fork Valley this year and also camping and hiking on the Oregon coast.

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Chasing Chukar

 

This year I was getting a bit bored of spending so much time walking the wet grass and woods, not to mention getting hit by shot, at Crescent Lake and Stillwater so made a decision to get over to the dry side of the mountains to hunt wild birds more.   Early in the year I got Lira out at Cooke Canyon a few days on planted chukar just so she’d have some exposure to the birds and that was a lot of fun so this fall we took up chukar hunting for real.   We just got back from our fourth outing after these birds and it has been a lot of work and a lot of fun.

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