By Gus, on July 27th, 2010
This was the winning entry of the smallstreams.com writing contest a few years ago… brought back to life recently in the forum by the author, member John M. Larson (Alpinefly.) Enjoy…
The Winter had been bitterly cold and dreary. Then again, what more can be said of Colorado’s San Luis Valley; the cold spot of the nation most of the time. With the Sangre De Christo Mountains to the East, the Methodist Mountains to the North, and the San Juan Mountains to the West, arctic air would sweep down into the valley with an unrestrained vengeance. Survival experts will simply tell you that an exposed body would be hypothermic and dead within minutes as the air sucks the water and life out of every living thing. There was something more then just arctic air that had sucked the life out of me on this Christmas day. Seven years before, I was married on this magical day. Now the magic had turned to a bitter divorce. On this Christmas day, I went hunting, more out of tradition then desire.
Continue reading The Tale Of The Little Snow Fly
By Gus, on June 23rd, 2010
A decade or more ago I decided computing would be a necessary part of being employable. Guess what I found… yeah, Smallstreams. It was then very much Adam and the big cat team, I’ve been an on and off poster ever since.
Me? Born in 1950 in the UK, where we still had food rationing as a result of the 2nd World war and the UK being up to its neck with debt. I grew up with a vague feeling of never eating quite enough, which was not quite true. My country cousins, farmers, all had an excess of meats and fruit and vegetables. When we visited we would have over full stomachs. I did OK at school, guess I could have stayed on after age 16, but my exams did not promise much so I was apprenticed as a chef . A month later exam results came in, I was offered a place in the 6th form. Too late. I already had an income, mates who knew rock and roll clubs (and good pre taliban afgani stuff,) etc… etc… and wow!
1967 turned into 1969… Continue reading Member Profile: Doctor
By Gus, on June 23rd, 2010
Post fishing camp food from member BrkTrt in his “Early Fishing, Camping at Home” thread…
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