CURTIS LADUE rolls a cigarette, lights up, and turns in his saddle to put into words what I’ve been thinking for the last hour: “Gus is a shithead.” Gus is the only unsaddled or unpacked horse in our ...

Jim Benson and Jeff Boushee had spent more than a week on their own hunting moose in the Alaska backcountry, living in tents and eating dried food. Hunting rugged terrain that was mostly devoid of ...