The Farmer’s Carry – King Of Weighted Carries
The farmer’s carry is a missing ingredient in many individual’s strength programs. The utter simplicity of walking with heavy weight and perfect posture can have profound effects on building muscle and solidifying a bullet proof …
Backcountry Worthy Snowshoes
There are few pieces of equipment as intertwined with the history of Northern wilderness adventure and travel as the snowshoe. For centuries they have allowed humans to travel through winter conditions that would otherwise have …
The Serengeti Of The North – Alan Dabb’s Spatsizi Safari
As I write this I sit before a breathtaking panorama, shades of red and gold, dotted with splotches of dark green where spruce and subalpine fir have disrupted the cover of willows and swamp birch …
Three Hours in Spatsizi – A Hunter’s First Moose. Colin G.’s Spatsizi Plateau Wildnerness Hunt
Note: Colin is an Assistant Editor of The Journal of Mountain Hunting What struck me most the first morning of our Spatsizi fly-in hunt this September was the feeling of solitude. That and it was …
An Interview with Jason Hairston
We live in an era of incredible change. What’s new becomes obsolete so quickly it can be near impossible to stay current with the most recent developments in a given product category or industry. The …
Our Grizzly Hunt, By Robert J. Pentecost
www.boone-crockett.org Jason, my son, was then 12 years old; this was to be our first “real” hunt. He had hunted since he was seven years old, around our ranch in southern B.C. We had decided …
The Deadlift Deconstructed
Over the next three Mountain Fitness columns we’re going to break down the lifts we outlined in last month’s “The 3 Most Important Lifts for the Hunter” article. But before we dive into the deadlift …
The Most Versatile Mountain Camo Pattern Part Two – Alpine Environment
In the second installment of our camo comparison we shot in very wet, overcast conditions in an alpine boulder field and scree slope. Here in BC there is often some greenery present well above 5,000 …
Tim Loran’s Traditional Archery BC Goat Hunt
This hunt started when my long-time friend called to tell me the Permit to Accompany had been accepted and that he and I would be goat hunting in the mountains of BC this year. The …
Elk Sherpa – Kevin Hilscher’s Kananaskis Country Elk Hunt (with support from Darrell Gaudet)
Hunting the Kananaskis area of the Alberta Rockies allows for a true backcountry hunting experience mere hours from a major city. The mountains, scenery, and relative lack of hunters due to vehicle and ATV access …