Rather than tell people I'm going hunting, I should probably say I'm going to walk a great distance across a lonely landscape with the hope of getting very close to some specific animals. It would be a more accurate description of how I spend my time, certainly, and perhaps it wouldn't trigger the occasionally negative response people sometimes have with the word "hunting." Hunting is a word that many people associate simply with killing. While a "successful" hunt is usually

A walk about the neighborhood yields a meal or three. It's common to think about wild mushrooms as being a far-off, deep forest, high mountain kind of thing. I suppose pictures of lush mossy forest floors punctuated by golden chanterelles doesn't help dispel that line of thinking. But mushrooming is actually an activity that urbanites can do very successfully, particularly here in the greater Seattle area. Some of the best mushroom meals I've had were from mushrooms collec

In which we fletch us some arrows in gaudy fashion. Also some brain science. Archery has, like most other sports, gone through a technological transformation in the modern age. Compound bows with counterweights, arrow guides, reticles, distance gauges, and all manner of accountrement can throw arrows at incredible speeds and with remarkable accuracy. So powerful are they, in fact, that wooden arrows shouldn't be shot from them as the forces generated by modern compound bows