Heaven is a place: Fishing Cuba’s Jardines De La Reina Think about a place where you can fish more than 100 miles of flats without seeing another fisherman, a place where the flats fishing is so good that you can catch seven species of fish in one day, a place...
Polar Explorers: the faces of struggle We know its cold out but put yourself in the mind of adventurers from the golden age of Polar exploration who somehow managed without all fleece and DWR technical fibers. Charting new ground in...
Remembering Ned Gillette: Bad Ass Extraordinaire Early in the morning on August 5, 1998, Ned Gillette was shot to death in his tent in the Karakoram.He was 53. Middle aged, at least by old standards. But Gillette was one of those people whose personality was...
the pleasures of a quick fix The pleasures of a quick fix It's cold out again with a sky the colour of wet aluminum. I slip out under the guise of an errand. In less than half an hour I've left the overly heated house with...
92 in the shade: Story telling at mile marker 0 Like many I came to Thomas McGuane's brilliant writing through 1972's "92 in the shade". Actually, a deep passion for fly fishing in all of its forms brought me to McGuane's novel of fishing...
The 10 Best ski lifts in the world #1 AIGUILLE DU MIDI – Chamonix, France - Built in 1955, held title as highest cable car on Earth for 20 years - Carries 65 passengers - Highest vertical ascent cable car in the world traveling...
Holland & Holland Range Rover Does it get any more British than this? Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations have teamed up with Holland & Holland to produce the most luxurious and expensive Range Rover ever built. As...
5 Tips for Chasing Swell & Living Well On a Bike 5 Tips For Chasing Swell and Living Well On a Motorcycle Alex Dosef I suppose it all started because I wanted to do something reckless and adventurous, which I’ve found are often one and the...
Fishing for Browns in Deep Autumn It's deep Autumn and fishing for Brown's is distilled to it's very essence. The true beauty of simplicity. Mike Lawson writes beautiful words as usual about his time spent on the water. Fall...
Inspiration in an English Autumn We do love our English Summers but the Autumn holds a special place for us. We know that winter is coming and that the day will soon be bitterly cold with afternoons becoming oppressive and darker...
A driven pheasant hunt in high style Is there anything more Autumnal than getting out into the storied English countryside and participating in a driven shoot? Lovely company, beautiful guns, and a flask of Laphroaig at days...
Purdey & Sons: The Art of Gun Making JAMES PURDEY & SONS LTD, SHOTGUN AND RIFLE MAKERS From their Mayfair headquarters in London, the two hundred year-old company has built a reputation for making some of the finest firearms the world has...
Le Chameau: Welly Aristocracy There are certain articles of clothing that we go back to again and again until they become a part of who we are, a part of our very make up. For once we aren't going on about our glorious...
The Waiting Game At this point we loathe one another. We have shared our mouldering paperbacks, played cards until the outcome of every game is disputed, glugged gallons of Chilean wine, gorged ourselves on lamb stew, and...
Reynard As a child I came across the fox as most do. The pages of Aesops Fables, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Goethes's Reineke Fuchs, and Reynard the Fox, telling of the trickster, the joker, the cunning and experienced...
Cortina Our younger selves would cringe if they could see how we have grown to embrace the more refined aspects of mountain culture as we have aged (certainly not matured!). We have always had a thing for...
Fell It's hard to imagine a more idyllic country from the air. That moment of the final descent, as one drops through the clouds, the much lauded patchwork of greens and browns coming into view. A...
Why? Force 7 Winds On An Atlantic Crossing If you would know the age of the earth, look upon the sea in a storm. The grayness of the whole immense surface, the wind furrows upon the faces of the waves,...
At What Price Pride The question is often asked "who we are?" or "what do we do?". Quite a bit of confusion abounds over how to get hold of one of our shirts, coats, or other splendid things we find along the...
The island of French magicians and a question of returning to the past. The roar of the plane is still with us, the buffeting of wind and air as we leave the sky behind, the tear drops of island chains in the blueness,the massive shining depths beyond the reef,the bumpiness of the...
Out of sorts on the Ides of March March has us jangled and out of sorts. One could easily write off the whole month as nothing seemed to go as planned but our predicament certainly wasn't for lack of trying. The path leads through...
Dr No & Round Hill An early swim out to the small, horse shoe reef has been the only thing pressing each day.. I swim out, feeling the water move from chill to warm then chill again as I approach the drop off. Two...