. . . To him who has once tasted the reckless independence, the haughty self-reliance, the sense of irresponsible freedom, which the forest life engenders, civilization thenceforth seems flat and stale. Its pleasures are insipid, its pursuits wearisome, its conventionalities, duties, and mutual dependence alike tedious and disgusting. The entrapped wanderer grows fierce and restless, and pants for breathing-room. His path, it is true, was choked with difficulties, but his body and soul were hardened to meet them; it was beset with dangers, but these were the very spice of his life, gladdening his heart with exulting self-confidence, and sending the blood through his veins with a livelier current. The wilderness, rough, harsh, and inexorable, has charms more potent in their seductive influence than all the lures of luxury and sloth. And often he on whom it has cast its magic finds no heart to dissolve the spell, and remains a wanderer and an Ishmaelite to the hour of his death.
Francis Parkman
Elk hunting trip up fish creek 2002
Jim with his spike, Donny at Obia's Cabin, our tarp camp on fish creek.
Taking a break under the overhang on Fish Creek, Comming back in with horses to pack out meat.
It rained for almost 5 days straight, spent alot of time under a tarp between a couple of logs. Stalking elk in long underwear after tearing rain gear and deciding it made to much noise in bottom photo, Spike elk Jim shot during this stalk in upper right photo (surprised he could shoot straight after laughing at me in long underwear elk hunting).
Jim with his spike, Donny at Obia's Cabin, our tarp camp on fish creek.
Taking a break under the overhang on Fish Creek, Comming back in with horses to pack out meat.
It rained for almost 5 days straight, spent alot of time under a tarp between a couple of logs. Stalking elk in long underwear after tearing rain gear and deciding it made to much noise in bottom photo, Spike elk Jim shot during this stalk in upper right photo (surprised he could shoot straight after laughing at me in long underwear elk hunting).
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