5:30am on an Arctic morning and I was barefoot, standing in three inches of wet snow, wearing just my boxer shorts and holding a 12-gauge shotgun in my hand. That was the moment I realized the absurdity of what I…
Absurdity

An unnamed tributary to the upper Sheenjek River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. In the Rockies of Colorado, where I spent a lot of time during my formative years, one of the things I loved (still do actually)…