where the sky goes on forever. where everyone must bend to the land. where to hunt, to fish, to sleep under that big sky aren t activities, but a way of life. - it was between here and those mountains that cheyenne and crow battle took place. but i like it. it s very peaceful, huh? - what was it like 100 years ago, 200 years ago? - oh, not much different. this was never forested. this is the dry side of the river, cause the primary winds come from the west. and rain tends to blow over here. that brings the snow to the mountains. bourdain: legendary writer and poet jim harrison is one of those people, and this is his home. [upbeat rock music] both: i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder - la, la - sha la, la, la, la sha la, la, la, la - sha la, la, la - sha la, la, la, la sha la, la, la, la, la [bluesy western music] - am i as o
mount view on three. one, two, three! mount view! some people must live in great spaces, where the sky goes on forever, where everyone must bend to the land. where to hunt, to fish, to sleep under that big sky aren t activities, but a way of life. it was right here in those mountains that the cheyenne and crow battle took place. but i like it. it s very peaceful. what was it like a hundred years ago? two hundred years ago? oh, not much different. this was never forested. this is the dry side of the river because the primary winds come from the west. rain tends to blow over here, and that brings the snow to the mountains. legendary writer and poet jim harrison is one of those people, and this is his home. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la sha la la la la la am i as old as i am? maybe not. time is a mystery t
Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised, hunting seems popular in Litchfield County, but overall Connecticut is near the bottom of states with the most hunters.
- the connection that you have with your food when you kill it yourself it s a totally different experience. - i believe that if you choose to eat meat, there should be a little bit of guilt and shame involved. something did die. so there should be a sense of loss and an understanding. - right here, this is it. i mean, you know where your food comes from. that s as small a circle as you can get. [whistles] hey, tony, the three things we can hunt here are hungarian partridge, which is a small bird. [speaks indistinctly] sharp-tailed grouse, and then rooster pheasants. so no hen pheasants. i ll call out what it is. - yeah, i m gonna wait for you, cause i sure as hell wouldn t be able to identify them. - so we ll get one person on one side of the draw. need one person on the other. and i ll run the dogs through the middle. - which way are they gonna break, do you think? any way. it could be any way. - any which way. we re hoping over us. [adventurous music] [whistling] hen! hen, hen