by Jim Huckabay | Sep 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Last weekend – Labor Day Weekend – was “Ilwaco Tuna Weekend” for Hucklings, Homeys and former Homeys. We started planning it when I booked Captain Rob’s Katie Marie right after he returned us and our fish to port a year ago. 2015 was extra special:...
by Jim Huckabay | Sep 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
Last weekend the 17th annual Cascade Crest 100 Mile Endurance Run happened. Over the past some years, I’ve written a few columns about the runners and their connections with the outdoors and fresh air and the earth, and my admiration for anyone who stretches personal...
by Jim Huckabay | Aug 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
I don’t know how many times I have been asked the question over the past few decades, but here it was again. Local friend Gary Brown and I were talking about the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute outside Las Vegas. “So,” he asked, “do you have a carry permit?” I...
by Jim Huckabay | Aug 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
It was one of those impromptu off-Reecer Creek meetings of the Reecer Creek Rod, Gun, Working Dog & Outdoor Think Tank Benevolent Association. (As you recall, such meetings happen whenever two or more gather in the name of “outdoors.”) The primary agenda item...
by Jim Huckabay | Aug 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
A week from tonight – August 21 – two of my outdoor heroes will be down the Yakima River at Canyon River Lodge. The two days following that – next weekend – archery nuts and bow hunters will be half a mile further down the Canyon participating in a steep...