Some things I've learned while traversing the hinterlands:

Ma Nature doesn't care whether your Nature Conservancy dues are paid up or not.

A few moments of contemplative wisdom always trumps years of ego driven experience.

A sleeping bag is one of the most under rated pieces of kit.

Keeping body core temp. at 98.6 deg. is a good thing(see above).

Pretty sure Timothy Treadwell wasn't thinking.. "doin' what I love!".. in his last moments of conversion to digestible protein.

“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”
― G. Orwell

"Why can't men kill big game with the same cartridges women and kids use?"
_Eileen Clarke


"Unjust authority confers no obligation of obedience."
- Alexander Hamilton