We were 10 campers in five dome tents – seven men and three women – out on a wilderness island in the Allegheny River in Warren County, three miles upriver from Camp F-Troop and several miles from anywhere else … Continue reading
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For 25 years now, we’ve ventured up to camp in early March for no good reason other than to celebrate the possibility of spring and to mark the end of the time of frozen earth and wicked winds. … Continue reading
Last weekend we celebrated our eighth annual Fireside Philosophers Event, an annual August gathering of outdoor writers at F-Troop for outdoor recreation and campfire philosophizing. Ben Moyer missed for the first time ever because of a family emergency, but … Continue reading
Five of us just returned yesterday from our 23rd annual trout season opening day visit to Camp F-Troop. Fly-fishers Gary and Brett Peterson, and bait-slingers Todd Puleo, Brad Isles and I enjoyed a sunny, warm, rejuvenating weekend up in … Continue reading
The 21st annual March 10th Motorcycle Pete Retreat brought five men and three women to Camp F-Troop recently to celebrate the promise of spring. It rained all weekend, but we dodged raindrops and capitalized on breaks in the weather … Continue reading
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
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