Tag: Outdoor Adventure
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An unexpected, momentary, heart-stopping gift
By Mitch Mode Special to the Star Journal Come days of summer swelter I take to the bike for solace. I top two bottles with cool ... -
Boundary Waters offers brief break from reality
By Mitch Mode Special to the Star Journal In the time near midnight the sky went to haze and the stars, crystal-sharp at sundown, blurred; weather ... -
On skis and in search of better times
Outdoor Adventure By Mitch Mode Special to the Star Journal I turned off the radio because I didn’t like the news. The news was sounding a ... -
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 ... -
So many memories
A tribute to Thor By Mitch Mode Special to the Star Journal Thor died. That’s all one needs to know. Two words tell all. Thor, our ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
October sunrise: A fleeting gift ‘best spent afield’
“Memories can be as elusive and as nebulous as morning fog but in the time of dawn they give us guidance.” By Mitch Mode Special to ... -
Slow and steady, Thor continues a tradition
By Mitch Mode Special to the Star Journal I never had dogs. Always liked dogs; never owned one. Hunted ducks and hunted grouse and never owned ...
