This is so damn cool... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuiEEP7PSS4 Legacy Expeditions, a veteran-owned extreme expedition company, is raising awareness and inspiring action to support the Folds of Honor Foundation through their upcoming global expedition, Triple 7, in January 2023. The seven-day, record-breaking skydiving adventure includes … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Triple 7, Celtic Christmas & Notes For Badass Santa

Biathlon season has arrived. The first series of races is underway in Finland. Martin Ponsiluoma of Sweden took the opening Kontiolahti Men’s 20 km individual with a single miss. Captain Rick Schwertfeger reported this morning that he saw part of the first race: I saw the 2nd half of it. Beautiful snow/track conditions. Looked quite cold. … [Read more...] about The Noble Nordic Sport Returns

May your day be filled with bounty and good fellowship. I am thankful for your presence at this campfire. … [Read more...] about Happy Thanksgiving!

Clan Cornelius executed as perfect a birthday as I ever expect to enjoy this weekend. Yeah, I turned 57 as of November 6. I got a rather stark reminder of this when I upgraded the tracking device phone and the tech feller urged me to sign up for AARP to get all the discounts membership provides. I’ve been ignoring that outfit for some time, but a … [Read more...] about Birthday Smoke & Dreadful Wind And Rain

Western music legend Don Edwards has gone up the trail. Edwards was one of the major figures in the great cowboy music revival of the 1980s and ’90s. My band, The Anvil Blasters, had the privilege of opening for him at an equestrian fundraiser in Bend many years ago, and Lady Marilyn and I got to see him perform many times — always solo, picking … [Read more...] about Don Edwards Has Gone Up The Trail

A pair of young outdoorsmen — both college wrestlers —  have joined a fraternity that includes Mountain Men Hugh Glass and Jedediah Smith: They survived a mauling from a grizzly bear. The incident occurred outside Cody, Wyoming. From Cowboy State Daily: Kendall Cummings could feel the grizzly bear’s jaws tearing through flesh down to his skull, … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — Ol’ Ephraim & African Bushcraft

Saturday was supposed to be a mundane day of chores and yard work. It turned into a day of lead & iron, and a long scout into the territory of Northern Ireland. The Finns started it. I awoke at Zero Dark Thirty because Ceili was up and off to open the coffeehouse where she works on Saturdays. Among the first things I spotted in my morning … [Read more...] about The Brutality

I reckon most of us here at Frontier Partisans have, at one time or another, entertained a fantasy of running off into the wilderness to make a life like that of woodsmen and Mountain Men of old. I sure as hell did. Reading The Big Sky in junior high school set my imagination ablaze with such notions. My trail led to considerably tamer versions of … [Read more...] about A Dream Of Yukon Gold

Ol’ Ephraim, as the Mountain Men called the grizzly bear, remains the deadliest of dangers to be encountered in the wilds of the American West — though fatal encounters are much less common than they were in the days of yore. From The Livingston Enterprise: Park County law enforcement officials said a Livingston man who went missing Wednesday … [Read more...] about Ol’ Ephraim

As Frontier Partisans readers know, it’s all too easy to lure me down a sidetrail. Mike Gahagan got me Sunday evening. Mr. Gahagan, a gunsmith by trade, is one of those wonderful people who use Facebook for Good, posting beautiful things. Natural wonders. Old stone fortresses. Muzzleloaders. He shared a pic of a hunting gun presented by Marie … [Read more...] about I’m A Man You Don’t Meet Every Day