I keep reading articles about this dual brood emergence coming up. It all sounds pretty crazy to me. I used to live in Nebraska/Kansas as a kid, and I still remember the seasonal cicadas - but this just sounds outright preposterous. Does anyone have much experience with these periodical cicadas...
I work for a small geospatial data mapping company and "AI," more specifically Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for image segmentation, has figured heavily in the work we do (classifying features, such as trees or land cover, from high-res aerial imagery). In fact, it's completely...
I saw my dad go through a bad case of shingles. He got it bad on his face which left some pretty nasty scars. He said it was painful, so I asked how painful. Worse thing he had ever felt - even more so than his skydiving accident (yup, you read that right.. it left him hospitalized with a broken...
Another non-game encounter that was pretty cool but a bit more hair-raising was seeing two griz interacting with each other. One was definitely larger than the other and was putting on a show strutting around the other. This was during a spring [black] bear hunt, so I presume it was a boar and...
What is the most unique/memorable non-game species you've encountered while hunting?
While on a recent black bear hunt, I was hiking slowly through a canyon under a dense canopy of Doug Fir and Lodgepole Pine when I encountered a Great Gray Owl - a first for me. I watched it for about 10...
Some riotous stuff started happening in Europe around this time. Interesting reading interviews with Peter Brötzmann growing up German after the war and seeing the directions that people took art and music. Lots of which basically said "screw the establishment - look at where it's gotten us."
Thanks for your input, everyone. Sounds like insulation is definitely the next thing I aim to improve. We have two attics, one of which is functionally inaccessible except through the gable vent. This is the attic over the original construction (built 1910), so I'm willing to bet the existing...
Well I just got our December NG/electric bill from NW Energy, and all I can say is "ouch." Sure, it was a cold month, and sure, I do live in an old home that most likely has crappy insulation and one insanely inefficient gas stove. But energy bills like this definitely hurt financially.
I've...
My season was now over. Although bittersweet, I enjoy the close of the season. With success behind me, stories to reminisce on, and a fuller freezer, I felt like I could close this chapter and savor the coming weeks before the arrival of our second daughter (we are still waiting as I write...
To answer RobertD's question, the deer sign was phenomenal. Each time I hunted on the ranch, I kicked up more whitetail than I could count. Some really handsome bucks too. It got to a point where I would just ignore them outright. They were safe from me, not on the menu. I had never really...
Fast forward to this past October. Bob graciously lets me come back opening weekend to hunt my general elk tag. It had been a full year since I had been up that way and it was a welcome sight to see that pretty chunk of country in its fall splendor. Opening weekend in MT, some might recall, was...
My favorite part of being a member of HT is reading others' trip reports - successful or otherwise. Nothing beats a good hunting story, and some members on this forum ought to be published for the quality of their writeups (anyone want to edit and publish a book..?). I can't say I've contributed...