Life takes his toll. We age and the older we get the faster we seem to age. I've got a very athletic older brother that told me in his experience every five years of your life you age as much as the previous 15 years

so it's kind of accelerating now I don't think that's a clinical or a technical diagnosis

but it's an interesting way to look at our bodies and

kind of forecast the capabilities that we will have in the future. I've had a few

listeners recently older guys anything from middle-aged like me up

through their 60s and even into their early 70s as for suggestions for little guidance in staying backcountry fit, you know we talk about

we throw around terms like sheep shape I don't know if that is what every backcountry hunter needs to strive for but I do think it's

important to keep our bodies and our minds in a certain kind of physical condition if we're going to keep pursuing this

passion of backcountry hunting as long as possible as long as we can. So that's the

topic of today folks is staying fit and recovering after what

should be a debilitating injury. I've had one or two of those myself and I've got a

good friend on the line that recently dealt with a really bad one.

This is Jordan Voight out of Montana.

Longtime friend, fellow writer, and a professional big game guide in Alaska.

Welcome to the show Jordan.

Thank you Joseph thank you for having me on this morning.

Oh my pleasure. Now we're going to talk about something that happened to you last year on a sheep hunt and use it to toss around all kinds of information here, but just to give our listeners a little better understanding of who you are, where you've come from and what you do, tell us about yourself.

As I'm now, I'm 38 years old. I've been hunting in Montana and lived here

since I was about 10 years old. Been in my dad's hip pocket when I was a kid

until I could get out on my own and started from there with my own bay hunts and then gradually built on my on my hunting skills to where I started backcountry hunting solo every once in a while with a friend of mine but just the nature of I have a wife and two kids melding schedules is tough to do so a lot of it by necessity I've just I've been doing a lot of solo backcountry hunting

and I love it in the mountains of Montana, but Alaska always intrigued me.

So I was working a job, just a regular 9 to 5 job, and was sitting there one day, and I had a friend of mine who I knew had guided in Alaska and I decided to call him that night.

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