blind tagged posts

Dan’s first birds.

Recently, I read Leigh Newman’s essay What a Camping Trip Taught Me About My Marriage (and Myself) in Real Simple and it got me thinking about my own relationship to the outdoors and my husband Dan.

Like Leigh, I come from a family deeply rooted in the outdoors and the sportsman and woman community. So when I traded in my smaller hometown for the big city and stayed my family was a little in shock.  And then when I fell in love with a city boy who loved to mountain bike they were welcoming but a little surprised.  While Dan loved the outdoors and worked at outdoor camps he had never been hunting or exposed to the sportsman community.  My brother joked that Dan had to “kill something” before becoming a part of our family...

Youth Hunts – A Few Essentials for Big Game Beginners

If you’re a seasoned hunter, chances are you started out young. You most likely accompanied your mother, father, grandmother or grandfather on hunting trips and they taught you the ropes. Perhaps you started later in life and had to teach yourself, but now you have kids of your own and want to bring them into the fold. For some, it can be an enjoyable family tradition passed from one generation to the next.

Whitney’s husband and niece out in the duck blind.

A youth hunt is a valuable experience for young girls and boys because it gives them a degree of life experience they will never get in front of a TV. It teaches them the value of hard work and the accomplishments that can come when you put your effort and focus into something...