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Yup, that's the place! More than one story like that.

Which is why all my elk camp Coleman equipment uses white gas. I have been in conditions where it was difficult to get the newspaper in the sheepherder wood stove to light it was so cold. Ain't happening with propane then. I have to admit that below -40 my enthusiasm for grilling will be...

On the Uranium areas, Pumpkin Buttes was way north of Douglas, west of Wright. Blizzard Heights was out 93 north of Douglas. 93 (then 32, the Highland Loop Road) went to Exxon's Highland Mine, the adjacent Morton Ranch Mine, where I worked, and further north to the Bear Creek Mine and another...

Black flies in WY are nothing compared to the North Woods of the Adirondacks where I grew up. So I tend to overlook those. Deer flies on the other hand do deserve honorable mention.

Even when you plant a tree you have to consider the lean caused by the wind and the trajectory toward buildings should the wind take it down in 20 years. Not to mention tying down lightweight items of less than 50 pounds. Then there is wall tents. List is endless.🌪️

Back in the late 1970s at the uranium mines out on Blizzard Heights we ran all the heavy mine equipment day and night to keep the paraffin from clogging up the diesel engines. Around here anyone parking outside of a garage better have a block heater, especially diesel, or they may not get their...

When it is like that, I turn on all 4 burners even though I only need 2. Then I cook on the downwind side so I use the heat the wind is blowing from the burners that the meat isn't actually over. It is somewhat faster that way.;)

I find that when it is in the sub-zeros it takes longer, but I don't have a big fancy grill. Propane is sluggish below zero.

I can't leave my vegetable garden uncovered safely until 3rd week of June most years. And even then I have had frost July 4 & 5. Got a 2 month frost free period usually.

Well, at least here the last spring storm was only a few days ago, and if you turn around and look over your shoulder you look into a bear pit. Actually looking down the hill in front of you is a bear pit, too. We accounted for 9 of them within view of this place during elk season 2023.

Unfortunately way too true. In CO, years back, I fought the Californians on converting the natural meadows adjacent to an important elk calving ground into soccer fields. Yup, lighted soccer fields up in the mountains. At the time I wrote a nature column in a local paper. There were a bunch...

I grew up on the northern end of the Adirondacks, just south of Canada. The winters here seem milder than what I had as a kid. Actually it is too far for a lot of kids to walk. Rural kids wouldn't get there and back in a day walking. Especially not busting drifts in winter.

As they say, Wyoming is a small town with long streets. 🦬

mbmtb, you under emphasized some of the positive features. Wind (frequently 60mph), cold (down close to -50F the last few winters), grizzlies (on every western mountain range), 100+ miles for good shopping (and no Costco in the state!), rattlesnakes and scorpions, clouds of mosquitos come...

This one is unforgettable. I was hunting a special unit in Colorado that had required a bunch of preference points to draw. Early backpack scouting trips showed us several 6 point bulls in velvet, a good promise for the upcoming season. The first few days of the hunt produced no sightings of...