Stories from The Trail Less Traveled
Rain Deer - A Sitka Blacktail Story
Very few people are familiar with the Sitka black-tailed deer that occupy the rainy islands of Southeast Alaska. A passionate biologist, Sophie Gilbert, shares her story of learning about these deer through her PhD research and how she finds help from a local hunter, Prince of Wales resident and hunter, Jim Baichtal.
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Lessons From An Army Ranger
After 20 Years Training Elite Soldiers, MTNTOUGH Coach, Retired Army Ranger Lieutenant Colonel and United States Military Academy Physical Education Instructor, Ara Megerdichian Shares How to Get Off the Couch and Get Ready For Hunting Season.
Mountain Guide Review
We teamed up with the guys from Sportsman's Warehouse to bring you this great overview and review of the Kenetrek Mountain Guide 400 boots.
How to Avoid “The Bonk” on Extended Backcountry Hunts
Dustin Diefenderfer, founder of MTNTOUGH Fitness Lab, discusses the science behind why backcountry hunters often struggle in the mountains because they don’t account for “caloric burn rate”
Breaking in a New Pair of Boots
With hunting season just around the corner, it is time to get your old boots out and check to see if they have the ability to make it one more year. If not, now is definitely the time to get started breaking in a new pair of boots as well as conditioning your tender feet for the upcoming season.
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Humbled by a Stone Ram
It seems that whenever you chase and catch a dream, there’s always a bigger one around the corner. When my hunting partner Bob Sherer and I joined forces with others to start Kenetrek Boots, it was a little self-serving at first. Yes, we wanted to build a business… but more importantly, we wanted to design a boot that would serve us as we sought to achieve the hunting Grand Slam of all four species of North American Mountain Sheep…
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