It was the transition of spring into summer months when I got the news that I drew my General Season rifle Mule Deer tag. I was very excited since I drew the unit in Arizona that I am most familiar with. Posting to Facebook, sending snapchats, and texting friends; it is a fun time of the year announcing that you have been drawn and hearing if your friends drew or not. My plan leading in to this late October hunt was pretty simple. I was already planning on hunting lower eleva

Check out the film from the hunt here. For the 2016 archery bull elk hunt I had the pleasure of guiding Russ Johnson. Russ had drawn his first archery bull elk tag and we would be hunting a challenging unit. Anyone familiar with Arizona knows there are huge variations in the quality of hunts between elk units. Some areas take decades to draw tags for while others may only take a handful of years. With several hundred other hunters in a very well known unit our work would be c

Sometime the reality of hunting is that you come home empty handed. As a hunter losing an animal is an unexplainable pain to those who have never experienced it. It is, however hard we try, inevitable, that at times everything falls into place except for the recovery of the animal you are hunting. It is every hunter's worst case scenario. That knot in your stomach and the gut feeling that this animal won't be found... The opening week of the 2016 Arizona August Bear season pr

Watch the film of the Petrichor hunt story "Monarch" here. The white sandy soil settled underfoot with every step. The toe of my boots cutting hard into the dry desert ground as the added weight of a 90 pound pack pressed me towards the earth. Every step took purpose and thought to complete. Half way into a 5 mile hike to spike camp two, Tanner and I pushed forward quickly through the chilly black desert night. Our headlamps illuminated my dad and brother-in-law’s footprints