I'm with you there Wash - I dug out the mountain bike yesterday and got good and filthy, but it's just not the same as bow season. Started lifting again too, but that's more like work. Also, it's depressing how much you lose by taking 3 months off for deer season. I'm down 10-15 pounds and back to relativelylight weights. I really run myself into the ground physically over archery season - hiking, lugging stands, sitting in the cold and not eating really burns off the weight.

I'll start shedhunting soon and getting ready for spring birds. I just can't get into small game, competitive archeryor fishing - not my forte, I guess. I've got some discount coupons for skiing this winter, so hopefully I can pass some weekend days on the slopes to get my mind off the whitetails.

I'd really like to start running traplines again, but I just can't commit to checking them regularly with everything else going on. It wouldn't be fair to the animals. Also, I tendto get a littleobsessive over trapping once I get a line layed, so I know I'd wind up wanting to check it twice a day and everyone would think I'm nuts. I've got too many other balls in the air right now to start obsessing over a fox line. I know you guys who trap can understand.

Bowhunting Whitetailshas always been my #1 passion, so the passing of the season brings about certain void that just can't be filled by anything else. So, I do what any other rational person would do under the circumstances ---- whine and complain.