well, training really

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Harold Lee Pickens

Yeh, thats where I hang out also. I rent a cabin on a lake acouple miles south of Sagola for 2 weeks each October. Havent missed a year there since 1986. What part of Pa. are you from? I'm about 15" from the Pa. border going East and 15" from the Ohio border to the West.

Lake Mary?? if so - we have crossed paths,

I'm not in PA - I am in the Finger Lakes of NY. We must pass very close to you as we roll by the Washington PA area on our way to the annual Old Hemlock reunion.

[Harold Pickens]

I have 2 first cousins ( Pickens) who live and teach in the Ithica area and every October, my son would be playing tennis at the Cornell Univ. Open tournament while I was in the UP. Washington,Pa is only about a 1/2 hr from me.
A big regret is that I never took GBE up on his offer to visit him at OH back in the early 90's. Jim Fergus ,when he was writing the "Hunters Road" wanted to interview George but George declined until he told George that he had spent the day with me. George said that if Harold(me) thought enough of him to spend the day hunting with him that he would consent to the interview. There is a chapter about me in that book entitled "Looking for Mr. Grouse". I carried a Parker 16 VH that day.

[C.O.B.]

I can smell a PGCA Grouse hunt this fall what with all the members that "poke around" Dickenson county in the U.P. I'll be doing some exploring around Channing, Sagola and Crystal Falls this year as I bought a home in Channing. I used to have the area around Ralph, Foster City & Hardwood as part of my territory when I worked up there back in the 80's. As I travel through there to get to channing it hasn't changed much.