What got you interested in the outdoors ?

[hardy]

Originally Posted by drake

[B]

jesus christ.....i just threw up in my mouth. Thanks for that.

tip: not everything that pops into that space between your ears needs to be shared.

The same goes for you buddy and watch who you curse! What did Jesus do to you? Didn't your mommy tell you that if you don't have something nice to say don't say it at all!

[huntinstuff]

Originally Posted by drake

[B]

jesus christ.....i just threw up in my mouth. Thanks for that.

tip: not everything that pops into that space between your ears needs to be shared.

I was laughing and choking and my wife came running into the office thinking I was having a heart attack. I couldnt talk and just pointed to "drakes" post and she figured it out

drake you damn near killed me

[drake]

Originally Posted by hardy

The same goes for you buddy and watch who you curse! What did Jesus do to you? Didn't your mommy tell you that if you don't have something nice to say don't say it at all!

Jesus forgot to give BBJ's brain a filter, which in turn forced the food from my dinner up my throat and into my mouth (thanks a lot JC!!).....a good thread, with a bad start.

[drake]

getting back on topic......

I dont really know how i "got in to hunting". Ive always been outdoorsy and loved reading about hunting......next thing you know, i got a drivers license and an old shotgun...the rest is history

[Tundra Monkey]

I'm thinkin' Brian Wiley off this forum didn't know what he was starting when he invited me out the the farm when I was 11. Got to drive trucks and shoot gophers/pidgeons from sun up till sun down.

Betchya didn't know ya started the fire Brian

Moved to the NT at 12 and its been that way ever since.

tm

[alacringa]

Like many on here, it was my dad. He has never hunted (part of the reason I didn't, until I was 25); and seldom fished; but he often took my brothers and I out for hikes, or camping for a weekend (or for a week or 2 in the summer). I share many of his interests, to this day. When I go back to visit, we spend quite a bit of time together, out hiking and looking at whatever we see -- birds, mammals, insects, ferns.... It's largely out of interest, and partly to get away from mom for a few hours.

[walking buffalo]

Genetics for me.

My earliest memories all have to do with nature, hunting and fishing. I remember trembling with excitment just being near a dead grouse or duck.

I did have exposure to the outdoors and nature from birth, my grandparents still had a homestead farm; pigs, chickens, cows, crops, 2 acre garden, wild foraging, year round outhouse ( NO time for contemplation in the winter ), and of course the water well was by the animal pens, 100 yards from the house.

But at 10, when my parents split, I ended up in the city with no family to take me outdoors. Somehow, I always found a way. Bike, boots, beg a ride from anyone.....

Nice thread BBJ.

[roadkill]

I was standing in a subalpine meadow in either Golden Ears park or Manning, I don't remember which one, as we camped at both when I was either a tween or a really early teen.

Anyway, we looked down into the bowl valley below, and a huge herd of some sort of ungulate was moving across the land. The sky above was blue blue blue with some massive puffy clouds of in the distance, and I had one of the single most intense moments of my life. I'd call it religious if I was that type. As it is, I'll say that some sort of faith was born right there, right then. And caping changed from something I just sort of did with my dad and little sis to something I lived for. Years later, after jobs and bills and crap had pretty thoroughly buried that part of me, I discovered mountain biking and felt myself open up again. Started building up a camping toolkit immediately.

Fortunately, I'm with a gal who loves the outdoors as much as I do, so we do a lot of hiking, snowshoeing... pretty much anything like that. We're goign to get back into canoeing if we can, and I'd like to try rock climbing, but I have a pretty damned debilitating fear of heights.

[BlackHeart]

I was born in the wild, and raised by wolves.
I have glacier ice water in my veins and tamarack smoke in my lungs.
Sudden movements make me focus intensely.
My heart beat increases when I am on the tracks of my prey.
My trigger finger is always itching.
I will climb high, hike far, rise early, search the dark and be relentless in pursuit.
Rain, snow, ice, wind, cold, hot, hail, will not stop me.

These traits and skills don't go over well when practiced in the office.....better go outdoors.

[greylynx]

The outdoors was a good place to hide with my pals from the Beaver,Aseniwuche, tribes when we were hiding out from that lowlife NDP Liberal principal at the skrool who was looking for us and carrying a strap to beat us into socialism.

[roadkill]

Well, that didn't last long.

[alpineguy]

Born in Flin Flon in 1962, black and white TV with 2 channels. What else was there.

[Redfrog]

It started on a hilltop in Tennessee. Daniel and Davey started me out hunting b'ar. That Davey was always in a good mood. I don't remember a time he didn't have a **** eating grin on his face.

Since we were on a hilltop, it went downhill from there and after a life time of killing stuff to get here, I ended up in Bodo, hunting for the letters on my keyboard.

[theycallmeNoah]

I always dated guys who liked the outdoors...camping, hiking, scuba diving, fishing, hunting.

Now I'm married to a guy who loves the outdoors and all my gifts are "guy things"...fishing rods, shotguns, new .22, PAL course, hiking boots.

[TreeGuy]

Originally Posted by greylynx

The outdoors was a good place to hide with my pals from the Beaver,Aseniwuche, tribes when we were hiding out from that lowlife NDP Liberal principal at the skrool who was looking for us and carrying a strap to beat us into socialism.

Bad Kitty!!!

RK has been coming along nicely in the AIP/CSR since joining. (Alberta Indoctrination Program/Common Sense Revolution).

Don't scare him off now. Heck, when he first joined up he darn near needed an exorsism. TODAY, we've managed to get him to this point......

Baby step guys, baby steps.

[roadkill]

Originally Posted by TreeGuy

Sheez! You were the dude with the spycam?

I would like to mention at this point that I *may* have been hiding an open bottle of Everclear between my knees there...

I also rigged that baby up as a hybrid: In the city, she burns coal; on the highway, she runs on the souls of unbaptised children.

[lake side]

-Fishing with dad at an early age

-firing guns at the age of 5

-being brought up in Ft Mac

-But the biggest was watching Dad come home with that first bull moose kill.
In went the needle and since then I have been an outdoor addict that I hope they never find a cure for, except to be in the field!

[TreeGuy]

See GL ^^^^?

Whilest still a work in progress, our hippy friend is progressing nicely.

[roadkill]

Originally Posted by TreeGuy

See GL ^^^^?

Whilest still a work in progress, our hippy friend is progressing nicely.

Man, I'm *way* too much of an expensive b**ch to ever be a hippy...