Recent content by Coach Potter

I felt so blessed! Seeing the lights was a lifelong dream of mine. I have been telling my wife for 25 years that someday I was heading to the Artic Circle, and I wouldn't come home until I had seen them. To see them in my favorite setting will go down as one of the top experiences of my...

That's amazing...I love it!

We were so fortunate that it worked out the way it did. Had it happened any of the previous 5 nights we would have missed it as we would have been sound asleep in the tipi long before it kicked off.

A few more pics that I liked.

Sorry for double posting the first pics…not sure how I did that🤣

Man…what a week! I never know what’s going to happen when I leave the trailhead but I am never disappointed in the experience. We came out lite again. The only bears we saw all week was a sow and cub. We learned a lot about the area and will make some adjustments for the next trip. We spent the...

Thank you sir!

Headed back in for another week starting tomorrow. I’m loving the cool forecast for the 11 miles going in day one. I’m not super thrilled about the 4” of forecasted snow for day two, but it gets better everyday after Tuesday. I was hoping to shave the weight of the stove but it’s looking like we...

That’s where my son is too!

I was asked to speak at my son’s college yesterday. He goes to school in Montana so that meant we were going to fish😀. The fishing wasn’t amazing but we each caught a nice one and any day we get to fish together is better than any day we don’t. I also got to fish my way home today so….

I’ve never used it on snakes but I have an old .38 revolver that lives in the center console of my Jeep..it’s loaded with snake shot…I shoot grouse with it.

I participated in WA Wildlife issues for a long time. I grew weary and bitter...I didn't like what I was becoming. My wife called me out one day as being a "perpetual complainer," a trait I despise. I thought about that for a while (several weeks) and came to the conclusion we should move to a...

Spring is becoming my favorite time to be in the back country...right now it's 1a-fall and 1b spring :). Fall colors are amazing but spring colors are amazing in their own right. I also see more wildlife in spring than I do fall.

I will see if I can find the statements of the 2 commissioners I am referring to.