SkyLines

Wired to Wander Ch 3 "Old Man in the Moon"

Chapter 3 gets the memories of 2013 rolling with a painful start. But the action picks up in a big way! 
Note that this is the audio version of a complete video posted to YouTube here: https://youtu.be/fNqHNOEbyKk

Wired to Wander Ch 2 "Tumbleweeds Roll"

Second chapter of video series Wired to Wander sets the stage for my journey as an archery elk hunter in Idaho. This is complete audio from the actual video that can be watched on Youtube at https://bit.ly/2UES62G

#36 Introduction to "Wired to Wander"

For those who are listeners of this podcast series, I’m excited to add a visual element to my storytelling efforts. In addition to recorded essays, I’m also producing a series of short films called “Wired to Wander” that will chronicle the visual elements of my archery elk seasons from around 2012 to the present.
Music by Wrinkle Neck Mules and TV Torso
 

#35 2016 Archery Elk "The Gay Bar"

This essay is a look back at my 2016 archery elk season and what really kicked off a formalized effort to share complete accounts of my hunting seasons with audiences beyond my close friends. For all the years prior to this point, my hunting “Rut Reports” would go out as emails accompanied by photos of highs and lows of what each archery season had provided. (And that actually goes way back, even before the social adoption of email, to the 90’s when I’d haul photo albums around with me!) 
2015 had been a banner season and was reflected by several lengthy email sends. I’d put an archery bull and a rifle buck in the freezer and had soaring hopes for what a whole new unit would offer for my coming 2016 archery elk season. My ensuing 2016 “Rut Report” kicked off something like this:

#34 "Go Fly a Bike!"

Stand Alone Essay
#34 "Go Fly a Bike!"
As a little kid, I never had an overly strong desire to fly or glide through the trees like a bird. Much of what I was interested in was on the ground or in the water after all, and I felt like moving through the world in a magical way was already at hand... I'd just ride my bike! 
 
Riding a bike is to me- a form of flying. It's flying that is exponentially more obtainable to the average person, and a source of unbridled freedom for those who take hold of handlebars, grasp the balance of life on two wheels tap its potential. I've been tapping it's potential since I was 3 years old, fortunate to enjoy most my life behind bars. Handle bars that is of course!
 
Riding is one of a few mental spaces I can always call 'home' and it's played a major role in forging the person I am today. For those who may not relate to this connection, I offer this essay as a recommendation of why you should try ride a bike. I sincerely consider riding a therapy as powerful as any other. And whether it's pedaling a bicycle down a trail or piloting a motorcycle 80 miles an hour off road, there is opportunity for bikes to make birds your spirit animal- and take the training wheels off your life! 
 
Music by the Wrinkle Neck Mules

#33 "1995 In The Beginning"

Stand alone essay 
#33 "1995 In The Beginning" 
The year was 1995. I had a good paying job and owned my own truck. I’d just graduated high school and moved out of the house. Life for me was shifting gears and really opening up! 
Following my first home-town summer as an adult in Bend, Oregon, September found me pursuing new and exciting endeavors that would shape the rest of my life; like community college. And archery hunting.
My first archery season began in the pine forests of an area South of Bend called China Hat. All summer I’d blazed down the endless miles of logging and forest service roads of the region, and in doing so had deduced areas with highest traffic of elk.
Music by Wrinkle Neck Mules

#32 "The Willow Wicket Hotel"

Stand alone essay
#32 "The Willow Wicket Hotel" is a quick essay about an archery mule deer hunt. 

#31 "I'm the Birddog"

Stand alone short essay
Howdy folks, Bryan Huskey here and THANK YOU for tuning into my Skylines podcast! This is episode #31, my journey in chukar hunting, called "I'm the Birddog". Enjoy!