Tag: Mitch Mode
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Fighting against DNA: Trout and Fenway work toward a detente
By Mitch Mode Special to the Star Journal There exists, between dog and cat, between Fenway and Trout, an uneasy detente broken by sporadic and unpredictable ... -
Outdoor Adventure: Number 42
A picture perfect day to ski the Birkie By Mitch Mode Special to the Star Journal In the waning stages of my father’s slide into the ... -
Outdoor Adventure: If only dogs could talk
By Mitch Mode Special to the Star Journal Come times of snow, the dogs’ world turns smaller. In the time of no-snow the twosome runs free ... -
Outdoor Adventure: Hunting against the odds
Seeking success in a November snow storm By Mitch Mode Special to the Star Journal I woke in darkness to the sound of the wind. The ... -
A hunter’s true bounty
By Mitch Mode Special to the Star Journal In the beginning: Darkness. We drove into the vastness of pre-dawn; truck headlights a tunnel in the void. ... -
More to the hunt than the kill: ceremonial ritual plays out on a duck pond
“In art can be redemption but no more than in nature.” By Mitch Mode Special to the Star Journal If I had a schedule I’d have ... -
Basic in design, the bicycle provides simple pleasures
“The bicycle is still the magic carpet come to fruition in clear air on summer days.” By Mitch Mode Special to the Star Journal I have ... -
Surviving the summer heat
By Mitch Mode Special to the Star Journal In times of summer heat the margins of the day are when we can find comfort and solace. ... -
Riika: It’s going to take some time
By Mitch Mode Special to the Star Journal Where does one start? The beginning? Or the end? In the early days or with the long fade ... -
Time’s a’wastin’: Paddling the BWCA, better two than none
“At sunrise, the lake is mirror-calm; blue sky and mixed clouds reflect on the water. A pair of loons swims close; inspects us. The wooded shoreline ...
