Roland's Campfire Culture Archives - 2009

(1st half)

January 6, 2009

SHINE OR WHINE IN TWO-OH-OH-NINE

Opportunity to Turn over a new leaf presents itself on a daily basis, not just yearly

 

January 13, 2009

OTHER GRUMPY OLD MEN

My friend is an accomplished outdoorsman, but he has one glaring weakness: he's never been long on keeping outdoors secrets.

 

January 20, 2009

WEIGHING BACKPACK VS HORSEPACK

If there are hikers who think horsepacking is for the leisure class, all I can say is they haven't tried it.

 

January 27, 2009

FELINE DEPORTMENT

Half the western red cedars along the trail had been used as scratching posts by an oversized tabby; an impressive display of territorial marking.

 

February 3, 2009

OUTDOORS INEXPERTISE

How could we explain to believing readers that we perished in an avalanche we didn't even suspect could happen?

 

February 10, 2009

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

If Shakespeare, Robespierre, and Chaucer couldn't package and deliver love so folks in the back of the bus didn't snicker behind their hands, how can we?

 

February 17, 2009

AGE & EXPERIENCE VS YOUNG INNOCENCE

Once upon a time I borrowed spavined ponies and ragtag equipment and set out on untold journeys into the unknown. God knows how I survived. But I did.

 

February 24, 2009

MINDLESS SPRING MUD

there I was standing on our driveway's dwindling winter ice, enjoying the year's first balmy breeze, when overnight, that same driveway turned into a sludge pit.

 

March 3, 2009

HORSES 10 - ELK ZIP!

So that's why our hunters can never find any elk--our damned horses keep running them out of the country!

 

March 10, 2009

COPING WITH AGE IN A TECHNO WORLD

But have you ever stood tongue-tied in front of a whole school auditorium filled with wildly wriggling seven-year-olds?

 

March 17, 2009

SAINT PADDY'S AND THE IDES OF MARCH

Spring officially arrives three days after Saint Paddy's Day. Especially fitting as it takes most of my Irish friends that long to get over their green-beer dyspepsia.

 

March 24, 2009

MICROCHIP vs the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Back in the 60s and 70s I reserved my most biting sarcasm for anyone suggesting the microchip would prove as convulsive as the industrial revolution.

 

March 31

THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS MOST DANGEROUS

By far and away, the most blood-thirsty of all those wild denizens are Dermacentor andersoni, the Rocky Mountain Wood Tick.

 

April 7, 2009

BIG TICK MEDICINE

Ticks, according to research, feed only a few times in their lives.

 

April 14, 2009 (VACATION - NO WEBLOG)

 

April 21, 2009 (VACATION - NO WEBLOG)

 

April 28, 2009

KEEPING WHAT WE HAVE

After a while even a gullible Yankee by way of Texas will get the idea we mean no and go some place he can make over into an image he can live with.

 

May 5, 2009

MOM'S DO IT BEST

Her arms were folded, eyes shining with a little pride and a lot of love.

 

May 12, 2009

MAY IS THE "ALIVE" MONTH

Bighorn lambs and wapiti calves aren't the only creatures wishing to gambol amid the frenzy of spring

 

May 19, 2009

MARKING THE SPOT

The most important tactic in wildlife watching -- when you see something --mark the spot so it's easy to go back to

 

May 26. 2009

WILDWOOD HOME

We've lived in the same house on the same plot of land for going onto 45 years which, I suppose, is no record. But it is a pretty fair average

 

June 2, 2009

MOUNTAIN EDUCATION

The most important point in this post is that Jane and I seized the opportunity to visit places we'd not before visited

 

June 9, 2009

THEM AGAINST US PARK MENTALITY

I haven't ran afoul of Smokey the Bear of late. In fact, there are quite a number I really do like. I just don't want my daughter to marry one

 

June 16, 2009

DOWNWARD SPIRAL

It must be spirit-breaking to preside over a downward spiraling program; all the more so when one has dedicated a life to it. Like the U.S. Forest Service

 

June 23, 2009

DEFINING THE ENEMY

Pogo had it right when he said, "We have met the enemy, and he is us"

 

June 30, 2009

WEBLOG IN CHANGE

Today begins a sea-change in my Campfire Culture weblog

 

NEXT WEEK: THE RULES OF FOUR

 

 

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