Training: increasing strength and endurance for the backcountry; part 2.

A continuation on our last post; What have I changed to increase strength and endurance and have I noticed any results.  I will begin by saying that we have noticed a change in weather here in Utah and even though my little girl loves to go hiking with us, we want to make sure that …

Training: Increasing strength and endurance for the backcountry.

Every year you train and train and then finally it's here, Elk hunting season!  This year we had a lot of excitement going into this season which lead to the first two days of hunting really hard and getting far back into the backcountry.  We saw lots of elk, and even had a couple shots …

Monday Conservation: Wildfire

This Monday's Conservation is going to be a little different in structure.  We have done quite a bit of hiking this Spring and I was astounded by how many campfires we saw that had smoke still coming off of them.  Then when we would approach the fire pit to put dirt over it and douse …

Monday Conservation

Utah Sage Grouse Population: For the past 15 years Utah has been working to increase the Sage Grouse population.  Years ago the Utah Sage Grouse was listed on the ESL (Endangered species list), due to road developments, Wildfires and the extraction of natural resources coupled with the delicate habitat that is needed for the Sage …

Shed hunting

So far shed hunting has been a bust, we have only found two and we are starting to get restless for something else.  I think this weekend we are going to head out for some fly fishing my task for this week is to find a river that has a good amount of access without having …

Monday Conservation

Public land gridlocked by Private land owners: 9.52 million acres of public land are inaccessible to the people who own them.  Right now there are multiple different organizations that are attempting to get this issue addressed.  I know I'm not the only person out there who has found what would be some amazing country to explore …