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The Sharptail Caucus

This article originally appeared in the fall 2020 issue of Backcountry Journal.   BY RYAN BUSSE   As a young man I once stood on a mountain ridge so beautiful that I now find it impossible to describe. It was summer and a bird dog was at my side when I discovered the place that would change my life and come to be part of my very being. Like a military bootcamp, it broke me and then built me back up – wild, harsh and unspoiled by the hand of man and owned equally by all citizens of this ...

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