![]() ![]() In his best-selling book, Wild at Heart, John attempts to take men on a journey of discovery – to help them recover a life of freedom, passion and adventure. Whether it’s climbing mountains with his sons, casting a fly in one of Colorado’s many rivers or hunting bull elk high in the Rockies, this is where he comes alive. He loves nothing more than being in the outdoors. I’m searching for an even more elusive prey … something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. ![]() There’s something else I’m after, out here in the wild. My hunt, you see, has little to do with elk. Though the tracks I found this morning were fresh – only a few hours old – a bull elk can easily cover miles of rugged country in that amount of time …Īnd that’s why I linger here still, letting the old bull get away. Still, the advantage has always been his. I’m forced to rest again, even though I know that each pause broadens the distance between me and my quarry. The aroma of the pungent sage still clings to my jeans, and it clears my head as I gasp for air – in notably short supply at 10,000 feet. Though the sun is shining this afternoon, it won’t warm above minus one, and the sweat I worked up, scaling this face, is now making me shiver. This is the kind of country you could ride across for days on horseback without seeing another living soul. Spreading out below me, the landscape is a sea of sagebrush for mile after lonesome mile. ![]() The wind in the top of the pines sounds like ocean waves cresting on the ridge of this mountain I’ve climbed, somewhere in central Colorado. ![]()
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