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When I was nine, our family lived in Plummer, Idaho, a small logging town in the Panhandle.

We actually lived on 10 acres of land in the hills several miles outside of town.

My two older brothers were avid hunters who would go on extended hunting trips, and they'd leave from our house and head out to the middle of nowhere, pick a spot where they wanted to hunt and then build a shelter

out of fallen timber where they'd stay for the duration of their hunt. One year they asked me if I

wanted to go. I would get to stay in one of their timber shelters.

They would cook for me over the campfire, and they'd even let me shoot one of their rifles.

They promised it would be a lot of fun, and I asked my dad if it'd be okay, and after they assured him that they would take good care of me, he agreed to let me go.

We headed out on a Friday evening, and I remember the day because it meant I would be

missing Saturday morning cartoons the next morning. Oh man, oh, anything that interrupted Saturday

morning cartoons was horrible for me too, brother. I agree with that.

But I digress.

For a kid, that was a big deal, but this sounded like more fun.

Besides, I really wanted to fire my brother's 30-30 rifle, even if it would probably knock me on my butt.

We crammed into the front seat of my brother's regular cab pickup and headed further into the

mountains. It seemed like it took forever, so I think we must have been up there quite a way.

Of course, I was still a kid, and so the distance may have been exaggerated in my mind, but it seemed

like it took a really long time.

We finally parked in a clearing outside of the main tree line and we hiked the rest of the way in.

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