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Pursuing the Unpredictable: Fishing, Hunting & Entrepreneurship

Story by Lindsey Elliott of WYLDER Photography by Abbi and Callen Hearne Over the last two years, I’ve spent the majority of my time pursuing uncertainty in the mountain west. From the time I got my first fly rod, eight months passed along the rivers of Montana, Colorado, California, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho before I caught

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Profiles

Depth in The Field: Diving Deep with Alyssa Adler – Part III

On the latest Filson Life, marine biologist Alyssa Adler shares with us her love of underwater exploration and polar diving as Undersea Specialist at Lindblad Expeditions/National Geographic on Part III of our three-part series, Depth in the Field: Diving Deep with Alyssa Adler. Story by Alyssa Adler Photography by Alyssa Adler and Ryder Redfield Submerged to 40 feet depth my

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Depth in the Field: Diving Deep with Alyssa Adler – Part II

On the latest Filson Life, marine biologist Alyssa Adler shares with us her exploration underwater as Undersea Specialist at Lindblad Expeditions/National Geographic on Part II of our three-part series, Depth in the Field: Diving Deep with Alyssa Adler. Story by Alyssa Adler Photography by Alyssa Adler and Ian Strachan I buckle my fins and sweep my right arm behind

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Depth In The Field: Diving Deep with Alyssa Adler – Part I

On the latest Filson Life, marine biologist Alyssa Adler shares with us her journey to becoming Undersea Specialist at Lindblad Expeditions/National Geographic on Part I of our three-part series, Depth in the Field: Diving Deep with Alyssa Adler. Story and Photography by Alyssa Adler In cold water diving, sight is your strongest sense. Touch is inhibited by

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Profiles

Navajo Fly Fisher: A Journey Towards Understanding

When I was 5 my dad put a spinner rod in my hands because he just couldn’t wait any longer for his future (yet nonexistent at the time) son to be born. Little did he know he was planting a fishing seed that would grow and grow with an insatiable thirst. Being born and raised

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Profiles

Cast Hope: Share What You Love

Cast Hope is a nonprofit organization focused on providing kids in the Northern California community with the gift of the outdoors. Bringing youth and mentors together outside through the sport of fly fishing. On the latest Filson Life, Hogan Brown of Cast Hope shares with us his love of fly fishing and dedication to fostering an environment

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Profiles

Experience the Wild: Fly Fishing in the Frank Church Wilderness

On November 21st, 2016, we launched the Filson Experience the Wild Contest. Participants were asked to choose one out of four expereinces for a chance to win the trip of a lifetime for themselves and a guest of their choice. Thousands of entries and twenty-one days later, we announced the winner of the Filson Expereince

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Field Notes

How Not to Sink a Barge of Cargo: An Interview with Tugboat Captain Neil McGourty

Like any ocean freighting job, delivering freight to Southeast Alaska requires a thorough knowledge of the local weather and the peculiarities of the sea routes traveled. The northeast corner of the Pacific Ocean is no exception. With its narrow channels and abundance of fog, the convoluted coastline has long been a maritime graveyard. As told

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Lady Liberty: Inside the Heart of the Runaway

On the latest Filson Life, writer Emily Wittenhagen traveled to Port Orchard, WA and spent the day with Liberty Elias Miller to find out more about live-aboard life in Washington’s marinas. “There was this moment where everything almost went into slow motion and I was thinking, I’m really here. This is really it. I am

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Profiles

Trade Stories: The Blue-Collar Bastion of Ballard, WA

For 71 years, the Pacific Fishermen Shipyard has been building and repairing ships to face some of the toughest seas in the world. Today, it’s a maritime holdout in a waterfront culture that’s quickly changing. The sea has no back door. That’s what the shipwrights at Pacific Fishermen Shipyard say, and it means that when

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Profiles

Trade Stories: A School for the World’s Toughest Underwater Jobs

The Divers Institute of Technology is one of the premier commercial dive schools in the country. For the past 49 years it’s been churning out graduates from its headquarters on Seattle’s Lake Union to tackle some of the most demanding work in the water. By Will Grant Diving in radioactive water presents a unique set

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Profiles

Dogs with Jobs: UW’s ‘Conservation Canines’ Wildlife Program

In the freshly snow-blanketed Pack Forest of Eatonville, Washington, we spent the day with the team at Conservation Canines exploring the facility they call “home base.” The dogs at Conservation Canines are not your typical pets, with their intense drive to play often misunderstood as stubbornness. The biologists at Conservation Canines harness this energy by

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Profiles

In Pursuit of Mama Mo: Tracking Montana’s Wild Mountain Lion with Filmmaker Casey Anderson

In this Filson Journal post, we joined wildlife filmmakers Casey Anderson and Brad Orsted of VisionHawk Films in the snowy high desert of western Montana as they track a wild Mountain Lion named Mama Mo.

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Field Notes

Giving Chase: The search for fulfillment with Greg McReynolds

Greg McReynolds believes that America’s public lands are the ultimate expression of freedom. He loves young bird dogs and old shotguns. Located in Pocatello, Idaho, Greg works for Trout Unlimited and blogs at Mouthful of Feathers. In this Filson Life, Greg shares with us the exhilarating feeling of man and dog, in the field, together. I follow the dog.

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Profiles

Forest Woodward from the Frontier: Exploring the remote community of Stehekin in the North Cascades

In this Filson Life Photographer Forest Woodward continues his series Left of West, dedicated to the documentation of communities whose roots run strong and deep, who against all odds have weathered the passing of industry and resource booms, sustaining life on the oscillating and wild edges of the cultural and physical frontiers of human existence.

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Profiles

Depth In The Field: Out West with Camrin Dengel

Lifestyle photographer, Camrin Dengel, is a storyteller with a focus in slow living. She favors old things with new purpose, dutch oven cooking and photographing people that work with their hands. Below, Camrin shares with us a glimpse into the places and community that make Teton Valley, Idaho, her home. You can find more of Camrin’s work

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Profiles

Stetson for Filson: Langhorne Slim Interview and Spotify Playlist

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Field Notes

In the Fall: Fly Fishing Washington State’s Hidden Gems

Before trucker hats were a fixture of his wardrobe, Paul Moinester spent years wearing a suit and tie championing major conservation initiatives as a senior legislative aid in the U.S. House of Representatives. Tired of being an armchair-conservationist, Paul escaped from his deskbound life and spent the next two years wading waist-deep into endangered waters across the United States and Ireland.

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How-To's

Filson 101: Bird Dog Training with Ruggs Ranch

Gene Barnhart of Ruggs Ranch has been training world-class bird dogs for over forty-five years. Gene’s love of working dogs runs deep, and he’s handled them his entire life, hunting Beagles in his early years and then moving to Pointers. Now, you’ll find Gene at Ruggs, training and conditioning over forty hunting dogs. Ensure success

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Profiles

Trade Stories: Soledad, Wildlife Service Dog

Soledad is a 6-year-old Karelian Bear Dog working as a Wildlife Service Dog for the Wind River Bear Institute. Born in Florence, MT, she was the only puppy born of her litter earning her the name “Soledad”, meaning “Solitude” in Spanish. Soledad began shepherding grizzly bears at 11 months of age and she has since worked successfully with all three species of North American bear; polar, brown, and black.

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How-To's

Filson 101: Wesley Larson’s Guide to Safety in Bear Country

Wesley Larson is a Missoula, Montana native who has been working with Dr. Tom Smith of Brigham Young University for five years as a bear biologist. He has spent multiple field seasons studying denning polar bears on Alaska’s North Slope, as well as black bears within the Bryce Canyon National Park area. Here are his

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Celebrating the National Parks Centennial: Elliot Ross and the Range of Light

Elliot Ross is a New York City based freelance photographer. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, his interest for the photographic medium, for far flung places, and for observing the effects of isolation on interpersonal relationships developed during his upbringing in rural Northeast Colorado. He holds a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. His

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In Pursuit of Wildfire: Capturing California’s Harshest Forest Fires with Stuart Palley

When a wildfire erupts, Californian photojournalist Stuart Palley runs towards the blaze, not away. With an unbending eagerness for capturing the lives of those who protect and maintain our forests, the photographer makes daring and captivating imagery of an experience few will ever face.

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Food & Recipes

Filson 101: Campfire Cooking with Tipton Power

Tipton Power has worked on rivers for the last 16 years. He started out as a guide doing fishing and raft trips, and now works as a river ranger on the desert rivers of southwest Idaho. During the off-season, he and his wife operate a small blueberry farm in western Washington. He spends his

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Profiles

Celebrating Filson Fathers with Cody Humphrey

Cody Humphrey grew up in Hermiston, Oregon helping out on his family’s farm from the age of nine. As a young man, he spent his days alongside his father bucking hay, changing irrigation pipes, and tending to animals, learning to appreciate discipline and hardwork as lifetime values. Cody comes from a long line of farmers

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Celebrating Filson Fathers with Chuck Ragan

Chuck Ragan is a family man, an outdoorsman, craftsman and musician. From The Blanco River in Texas, the woods and water of Eastern Tennessee, North Georgia, the marsh and bayou of Southwest Louisiana and the salt and freshwater of Florida, Ragan was raised chasing fish, game and adventures in the outdoors while at the same

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Celebrating Filson Fathers with Jillian Lukiwski

Jillian Lukiwski, also known as The Noisy Plume, describes herself as a gregarious hermit, bohemian redneck, silversmith, and photographer and writer in the interior West. As Father’s Day approaches, we reached out to her to describe her memories of the outdoors formed with her Dad, who worked in the National Parks of Canada when she

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Trade Stories: Exploring the American West with Painter Nicholas Coleman

Nicholas Coleman was born in Provo, Utah in 1978. Brought up in an artistic home, Coleman has been painting and drawing for as long as he can remember. Coleman has found much of his inspiration in his travels across North America, Canada, Europe and even into Africa. Hunting and fishing along the way his interest often include exploring hidden streams and valleys looking for signs of wildlife. He gained an appreciation for the subtle details hidden in plain sight. In his own words he wants to “preserve the heritage of the American West.”

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Trade Stories: Eric Blinman, Archaeologist

Eric Blinman has been an archaeologist for nearly 50 years. He has worked throughout the western United States but has focused on the greater Southwest since 1979. Working for the Museum of New Mexico’s contract archaeology program since 1988, he is the current director of the office, overseeing salvage archaeology projects that deal with all

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Profiles

The Cosmos and the Desert: Thosh Collins’ Western Photography

Anthony “Thosh” Collins has spent the last eighteen years documenting and sharing the beauty, strength, intelligence, and resiliency of the Native cultures of the West and their unique landscapes. Rooted in his O’Odham heritage, a tribe from Salt River, Arizona, he utilizes photography to promote a positive image of Indigenous people and the land they

Pursuing the Unpredictable: Fishing, Hunting & Entrepreneurship

Depth in The Field: Diving Deep with Alyssa Adler – Part III

Depth in the Field: Diving Deep with Alyssa Adler – Part II

Depth In The Field: Diving Deep with Alyssa Adler – Part I

Navajo Fly Fisher: A Journey Towards Understanding

Cast Hope: Share What You Love

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Experience the Wild: Fly Fishing in the Frank Church Wilderness

How Not to Sink a Barge of Cargo: An Interview with Tugboat Captain Neil McGourty

Lady Liberty: Inside the Heart of the Runaway

Trade Stories: The Blue-Collar Bastion of Ballard, WA

Trade Stories: A School for the World’s Toughest Underwater Jobs

Dogs with Jobs: UW’s ‘Conservation Canines’ Wildlife Program

In Pursuit of Mama Mo: Tracking Montana’s Wild Mountain Lion with Filmmaker Casey Anderson

Giving Chase: The search for fulfillment with Greg McReynolds

Forest Woodward from the Frontier: Exploring the remote community of Stehekin in the North Cascades

Depth In The Field: Out West with Camrin Dengel

Stetson for Filson: Langhorne Slim Interview and Spotify Playlist

In the Fall: Fly Fishing Washington State’s Hidden Gems

Filson 101: Bird Dog Training with Ruggs Ranch

Trade Stories: Soledad, Wildlife Service Dog

Filson 101: Wesley Larson’s Guide to Safety in Bear Country

Celebrating the National Parks Centennial: Elliot Ross and the Range of Light

In Pursuit of Wildfire: Capturing California’s Harshest Forest Fires with Stuart Palley

Filson 101: Campfire Cooking with Tipton Power

Celebrating Filson Fathers with Cody Humphrey

Celebrating Filson Fathers with Chuck Ragan

Celebrating Filson Fathers with Jillian Lukiwski

Trade Stories: Exploring the American West with Painter Nicholas Coleman

Trade Stories: Eric Blinman, Archaeologist

The Cosmos and the Desert: Thosh Collins’ Western Photography