Welcome to Rumble Strip.

This is my uncle's old wood stove I got from over free.

It's got a big crack in the side of it.

It won't take long to get warm once this gets going.

Do you know any matches?

No.

Right now. Can't be too prepared.

That's Jim Welch the night before deer season.

We were in his deer camp in Chelsea and it was snowing which was ridiculous because it was too early to be snowing.

His camp is an old school bus outfitted with a wood stove and a couple pallets in the back for sleeping.

To get to it, you have to drive through Mr Bradshaw's barnyard and then about a half mile across a big field

The bus has been there for as long as Jim can remember and Mr Bradshaw lets him use it

So it was the night before rifle season and a bunch of Jim's friends

were coming out to the bus to do what they always do the night before deer season,

which is mostly drink beer, tell deer stories, and give each other a hard time.

No surprise, there's plenty of profanity.

And even though these guys are mostly in their 20s and 30s,

it seems like they've known each other forever

and known each other's parents and grandparents and uncles. Everybody knows everybody.

Since there's no movie theater, no bowling alley or no YMCA or much

self-service in this valley.

Fun is something you have to make up together

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