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Palouse topsoil is hellish load on hunters’ boots

Pound of mud cling to a hunter's boots as he crosses a Palouse grain field. (Rich Landers)
Pound of mud cling to a hunter's boots as he crosses a Palouse grain field. (Rich Landers)

HUNTING -- The frosty hard Palouse farm field beckoned me and my two bird dogs deep into the rolling hills and eyebrows this morning.

Then it got a few degrees warmer and nasty.

Hunting pheasants and keeping up with an English setter and a Brittany pup is significantly harder with a couple pounds of wet Palouse topsoil clinging to each boot.

But I was raised around Montana Missouri River Breaks clay "gumbo."  Palouse topsoil is minor league misery compared with gumbo.



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Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.




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