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The Sun Also Rises
Friday, November 22 5:56 AM. MST The revolutions of the stove fan grow slower and slower. Momentum fading like the last drops of daylight...
Allen Crater
Dec 30, 20249 min read
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Finish What You Start
It's Saturday. Wet snow slaps the wall tent in sloppy clumps. Somewhere, not far off, thunder peels – meteorological makings of the...
Allen Crater
Nov 29, 202316 min read
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Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
It was June of 2019. Blake, Dad, and I were gathered around a fire on a tiny island deep in the Canadian backcountry on a trip that had...
Allen Crater
May 31, 20237 min read
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Eighty Octobers
Swinging each leg off the top bunk, I hopped down, my excitement a rolling boil, barely contained by the lid. Stocking feet hit the floor...
Allen Crater
Nov 30, 20226 min read
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The Balm Of Adventure
It's mid July, hotter than hell, and the AC in the truck is out. We're cruising the highway with the windows down and the music up. At...
Allen Crater
Jul 26, 20219 min read
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Footprints
We cut our first elk tracks five miles in, post-holing our way through heavy snow often reaching past the knee. Kyle has taken the front,...
Allen Crater
Nov 13, 202010 min read
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Fishing Yellowstone - Three Generations, Six Rivers, Four Days.
It was supposed to be a hunting trip. My oldest son, Kyle, moved to Bozeman in 2018 to attend college and since that time my dad and I...
Allen Crater
Jan 14, 20208 min read
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