Secrets of a Camfire By Larry Hatter Dusk had crept silently into my midst as I plodded doggedly along the meandering creek bottom. The mountains that stretched dauntingly to the west, an impenetrable fortress of snow, shale and sheer bluffs, had long since claimed the blazing arctic sun for their own. A failed stalk on a lumbering grizzly, once promising, had in reality been long on promise and short on time. Leaving me with precious few minutes to reach my makeshift shelter before a … [Read more...]