As the seasons get colder and some conditions change, efforts will be shifting towards Project Local Vigilance and some writing projects currently underway. Efforts will be a little closer to home but we will still be actively out there. Also, we will attempt to get back into the Op-Ed thing some more. It’s been a while.

So winter is coming to an end, and one would think that is generally a good thing, but I find it to be one of the harder times to get out there. In winter, when snow is still power one can go snow shoeing and tracking in the snow and it is an enjoyable time. Perhaps not so much the driving in snow or shoveling, but getting “out there” can be. As winter turns to spring and the weather gets warmer though, snow turns into this snow cone like crusty substance and one quickly discovers the cold, wet abomination that it is. You can still go tracking and all that, but snowshoeing isn’t really an option any more but the slop is still there and now it’s basically just in the way.

During the course of the winter though I did find the time to do some other things, like started doing some attempts at video of the outings I’ve had, and still have a third one to cobble together. Some do this on YouTube for profit and the equivalent as a blog, I suspect as time goes on that my efforts will just go the blog route. I managed to track a huge bull moose, and bother a porcupine on video, but that’s about it. It’s generally a quiet time for most who monkey hunt because folks I guess don’t like the cold, which brings out the other sad reality, that folks online start to bicker. Stupid bickering to which I think can be attributed to cabin fever.

But fear not, with spring there comes mud, which is also good for tracking, and as things get warmer, activity in the field will pick up and there might even be something interesting to write about.