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| Hunting deer on a mountain bike | |||
| Tuesday, November 15, 2011 05:54 |
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By Nadia White, High Country News In the tangle of gear in my daypack, the phone started ringing. It was a wholly inappropriate moment: My phone is pink, and its jaunty notes clashed with the traditional hunter's world of blaze orange and camouflage. I sat on a rock by the trail and cringed. Everything about this -- my first hunting trip -- would prove to be post-modern. My friend Andrew had been bugging me to hunt with him, and I'd put him off. Now, on the final afternoon of deer season, I realized that my bike trailer and I were integral to his dream of a carbon-neutral hunt. We pedaled through town, he with our sole rifle across his back, me towing the trailer. "I've always wanted to do this," Andrew said. "To leave from my house, go hunting and carry the deer back home. Without a car -- to get a deer without spending any fossil fuel." OK, you've got to read the rest of this story at the High Country News website! PHOTO: File photo of a deer in Garden of the Gods. Dena Rosenberry, The Gazette |
