As technology continues to advance the outdoor lover has to ask themselves if they will embrace or reject the new advances they can take into the outback with them.
I am presently overlooking a beautiful drainage, watching the sun dip behind the Boise Mountains and typing up this blog entry; all while waiting for an elk to walk out of the trees and fill my freezer for the winter.
I checked the distance to my home from here on my Garmin GPS, and thanks to Blackberry and Verizon I checked my emails too.
I am definitely in the camp that says embrace technology. If you keep your perspective right this improves your life. For example, I needed to approve a Power Point presentation for a seminar I am conducting tomorrow night. Rather than make a guilty decision to put it off and go hunting, I was able to check it from up on the mountain.
Am I a workaholic? Absolutely not, but I do have to work. This technology is not giving me more work, it is giving me more time in the woods. Consequently, when I get home to my family tonight I will not have to take time from them to complete work I should have been doing while I was out hunting.
Speaking of technology my Nikon Monarch binoculars have coated lenses and prisms for better low light visibility......that reminds me, the sun just dipped below the Boise Mountains. I better get busy glassing....the photos attached are the before and after sunset photos of this little drainage....
Just as an add on……no elk last night.
I am presently overlooking a beautiful drainage, watching the sun dip behind the Boise Mountains and typing up this blog entry; all while waiting for an elk to walk out of the trees and fill my freezer for the winter.
I checked the distance to my home from here on my Garmin GPS, and thanks to Blackberry and Verizon I checked my emails too.
I am definitely in the camp that says embrace technology. If you keep your perspective right this improves your life. For example, I needed to approve a Power Point presentation for a seminar I am conducting tomorrow night. Rather than make a guilty decision to put it off and go hunting, I was able to check it from up on the mountain.
Am I a workaholic? Absolutely not, but I do have to work. This technology is not giving me more work, it is giving me more time in the woods. Consequently, when I get home to my family tonight I will not have to take time from them to complete work I should have been doing while I was out hunting.
Speaking of technology my Nikon Monarch binoculars have coated lenses and prisms for better low light visibility......that reminds me, the sun just dipped below the Boise Mountains. I better get busy glassing....the photos attached are the before and after sunset photos of this little drainage....
Just as an add on……no elk last night.
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