Everything Outdoors with Chalen

Welcome! I hope you enjoy these musings, poetry, photos, and information on experiences in the outdoors. My goal is to help people better enjoy hunting, hiking, fishing, trapping, and general outdoors tomfoolery. If you have an idea for a topic I should write about, want to share a story with me, or would like me to write for your publication, please email me using the contact page.

Latest Posts

• 50 Fish, 50 States- The Beginning of a Lifelong Adventure
  For those that don’t know me personally, I’m a young guy, 30 years old as I sit writing this. I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have some fascinating experiences in my brief time on earth, but I have goals and ideas for what I want to accomplish while I’m able. As… Read more: 50 Fish, 50 States- The Beginning of a Lifelong Adventure
• Spring Creek Skunk Best Served Cold
  Groundhog Day, in retrospect, seems a fitting day to have taken this journey. Having plenty of time off work available and with everyone still recuperating from the busy season, February was a great time to try and add one more stream to the “completed” column of the Blue Ribbon Slam… Read more: Spring Creek Skunk Best Served Cold
• A Very Good Tent
  We should get a new tent,Ours is old and worn and spent, Last Year it started leaking slightly,On a trip where it rained nightly, And long before that we had to tape,One of the poles to keep its shape, The zipper won’t zip more than halfway,Leaving nothing to keep the… Read more: A Very Good Tent
• Getting the Cold Shoulder At Crane Creek
  Blue Ribbon Trout Slam #2 The blaring of my dresser top alarm clock sounded loudly in my sleeping head, and this was a problem. It meant that I had overslept, missing my phone alarm that I had planned to get me out and about earlier than normal. I rolled out,… Read more: Getting the Cold Shoulder At Crane Creek
• The Perfect Fly
  A trickster of fish and gambler of fate,here in the house I dream and wait,of warmer water and warmer weather,here amongst my fur and feathers. Preparing for battle on the lakes and springs,creating my weapons of tails and wings,thread and tinsel, dubbing and hackle,all the tools to create my tackle.… Read more: The Perfect Fly