We’d spent the whole day outdoors and probably hiked 2 miles, getting from one place to another, and now just at dusk the skies darkened, the wind kicked up in our faces, and we heard the thunderous sound . … Continue reading
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We had 10 hunting buddies up at Camp F-Troop and snow on the ground for the opening day of deer season. Things just don’t get much better than that. We all rose at 4:00 a.m., our traditional wake-up … Continue reading
Finally! After three and a half years of writing and revising and painstaking work with designers, editors, and printers, my new book is out this week. The title is The F-Troop Camp Chronicles (A Life in the Pennsylvania Outdoors), … Continue reading
On Thursday afternoon, October 23rd, my brother Billy and I traveled up to camp for the last two days of the week-long fall muzzleloader season for antlerless deer. Unlike the winter flintlock season, fall muzzleloader allows for the use … Continue reading
Earlier this month I attended the fall conference of the Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association in Carlisle, PA, along with fellow writer and organization member Brad Isles. We drove in on a Friday afternoon, and, as soon as we arrived, … Continue reading
Good fishing was the theme of our seventh Fireside Philosophers event, which brings several outdoor writers together every year for a weekend of Warren County adventures. On Friday Gregg Rinkus and I traveled into the Allegheny National Forest to … Continue reading
Last weekend, five of us camp regulars completed our fourth annual summer float down the Allegheny River, and this year we experienced unusual fishing success. I arrived early Friday to cut grass and do camp chores. By the … Continue reading
That’s why you buy a camp, so you don’t have to sleep out under a tent, right? But we chose to do it anyway last weekend, for the first time in F-Troop history, and we had a great time. … Continue reading
Last weekend I attended the Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association annual awards conference along with my fiancée Donna Rai’ and my friend Brad Isles, who is a fellow writer and member of the organization and designer of this Web site. … Continue reading
We came off the mountaintop and hit the stream branch two miles up from the river on opening day, 2008, and I headed straight to a sweet little spot I’d fished before, twice last summer. A deep run there … Continue reading