Mike Herne
Freelance Outdoor Writer/Community Marketing Manager
Expertise:
Western Hunting, Gear, Coyote Hunting, Shooting, Archery.
Location:
Colorado Springs, CO
What the outdoors mean to Mike:
Twenty years of military service taught me one thing about the outdoors: it's the only place where life gets honest. The noise of civilization, the manufactured urgency of deadlines and obligations, all of it drops away the moment you're deep enough into the mountains that comfort is no longer guaranteed. Out there, the problems are real. Food, water, shelter, survival. You stop managing life and start actually living it. We weren't built for comfort. We were built to work for something that matters. Every spring and every September, when I step back into the high country, I get a taste of that. It's not an escape from life. It's a return to it.
Articles by Mike Herne
