The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Rather than hunting my traditional last-day trac tin Lind, I spent the final morning of the 2022 upland bird season with new friends Ryan and Jessica. They had traveled from Canada to Ryan's old Palouse stomping grounds to finish their season.

Ryan and I met a couple of years prior on social media, connected by the Palouse and a love for upland hunting. Once he had dates set for their trip south, he graciously reached out with an offer to join them in some formidable yet productive covers.

Steep, brushy, and prickly are the most accurate descriptors of the eyebrows the three of us would ta...