Battle Hymn of the Grizzly Dad
Children of the author, and his friend, show off their catches at his Alaska fish shack this past summer. His oldest son, James, 13, poses with a wild turkey in Montana. (All photos courtesy of Steven Rinella)
Exposing your children to the dangers of the natural world isn’t irresponsible. It’s good parenting.
In August of 2020, I was hunting with my 10-year-old son south of the Yukon River in eastern Alaska. We were camped along the crest of a low gravel ridge rising above an expanse of tundra that was mostly covered in ankle-deep water. That morning my boy had killed a caribou about a mile from our camp and we had carried half the meat back on our backs.
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