Ice Fishing Antero Reservoir

 Chompers next to my double-wide ice tent.

 14" Rainbow Trout

Chompers jumped on the ice auger, three stitches & ten days of cone head.

Pheasant Hunting Kansas

What I Learn

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is offering oodles of  free online courses in subjects ranging from computer science to finance. I'm taking a few courses in computer engineering currently...take that University of Stupid Phoenix. 

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

Shotgun

My new CZ Semi-Automatic 12 Gauge Shotgun. I'll be hunting for Pheasant in Kansas on November 11th. Red neck transformation complete.

Beaver Lake - Pike National Forest

 Sighting in the new Ruger 30-06 rifle. 20 shells and I'm a sniper (sighted to only 50 yards out)

Kill count: 

1 Target

1 Empty Coleman Fuel Bottle

1 Empty Jet Boil Canister

1 Coors Extra Gold

1 Beer bottle shaped spinner target

 Adam on the laser range finder

Crystal protecting the ear drums

 Beaver Lake above boulder.

 Playing Catan with the gang

 Weird stuff in Ward Colorado

Elk Rifle

My new Ruger M77 Hawkeye 30-06

Monster Trucking

Three days after buying my new 2011 Toyota 4Runner Trail Edition I took it on the Middle Saint Vrain four wheel drive trail(difficulty 5 out of 5). All of these pictures are from the first 20 feet of the trail. It got much worse.

Trail Damage: Three dents in my skid plates, one brush scrape across the entire drivers side.

Crater Lake - Flat Tops Wilderness

 Within 5 minutes of arriving at the lake we spotted a bear on the far side of the lake walking across the boulder field. Two minutes after that a snake slithered across my foot. The next morning I was the first up and drinking a cup of coffee and a bull elk walked within 25 feet of me ate some grass then took off. Crazy.