by Chet Fitzgerald | Sep 26, 2022
A sheep-turned-grizzly hunt along the Canadian border.
by Ken Kirkeby | May 9, 2022
Part II Of Ice and Men I helped him get to his feet and got him moving toward camp. He walked like a crippled man. I quickly pulled the cord attached to my pack and it came up full of water. I turned it upside down and jammed the frame into the snow. I left the rifles...
by Ken Kirkeby | May 6, 2022
Part I Of Ice and Men Just being in grizzly bear country gives one enough to stay awake about. Most dangerous of all North American game, the grizzly across a land that can present an equal peril. Western Alaska’s overwhelming of isolated hills and drainages — empty,...
by Jaques Rutten | Apr 21, 2022
Generally, he would have welcomed the chance to leave the hunter behind and go alone to finish the hunt. It would’ve been a good way to end his bear-hunting career. But this time, he couldn’t. Kernels of snow splashed from the tracks for several feet in...
by Al Gilliam | Mar 9, 2022
The bear launched and hit the ground, eyes locked on me. Then, I heard my friend yell, “There’s two!” — A second later, “There’s three bears!” On May 18, 1983, I was three days into a seven-day assignment with Alaska State Parks,...
by Scott Brosvik | Mar 3, 2022
I realized then I was on my own — alone in a vast wilderness of ice and snow. Looking above camp toward where we’d be hunting brown bears, all we could see was snow and mountains, not a tree in sight. The only thing that wasn’t white was an occasional rock sticking...
by John Whinery | Feb 2, 2022
Soon I found a path which led me over a deep gouge in a log. I realized, this was a bear path! I’d followed deer trails, but never had I walked a path used only by bears. Roland Burrows turned his boat out to sea and said, “I’ll be back tonight at...
by Kyle Wright | Jun 14, 2021
You can hunt year-round when you travel into the stories of great outdoor writers.
by Ron Spomer | Apr 1, 2020
You can do it all on Alaska’s rivers as long as you’ve got the right outfitter and guides. The idea is traditional. Go to the wilderness. Fish and hunt. Everything. Moose. Bears. Waterfowl. Salmon. Whatever pops up. It’s what sportsmen used to do. It’s what they...
by Ron Spomer | Dec 3, 2018
This article originally appeared at RonSpomerOutdoors.com In her previous blog on RSO, Alaska hunting guide and bush pilot Tia Shoemaker gave us five great AK hunt tips for a successful hunting experience in her neck of the woods. In this blog she gives us five more....