Hound Dog Network - Cold Weather Gear for Hound Hunting

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2:07stronger. If you want extreme performance, you can look them up at a nookship professional dog feed or Corey Nutrition.com. It was one of those mornings where the cold hit you before your boots ever touched the ground. I cracked the truck door, and I felt like the air had punched me square in the face. Seven degrees is what it said on the dash. That sharp iron kind of cold that burns your nose when you breathe it in. The dog box was crested over with frost, and when I snapped the latch to open the doors, steam rolled out, just like I'd opened the furnace. The hounds didn't care, they never do. They were wired tight, toenails rattling against the metal. Every time they'd take a breath, white thick clouds would roll up underneath my headlamp.

3:12Somewhere on that mountain, a bear had crossed last night, and those dogs knew it. I just had to find it. I stepped into that logging road, and the snow talked back. That loud, crusted, glassy kind of echoes through the timber. Ever stepped cracked like a rifle shot. You could hear a collar shake from a hundred yards away. We cut off the road, dropped down through the timber line into a holler near a creek bottom. The dog's opened. What in the hot track? But it was a track. Dog's eased into it, working it slow, grinding, and an hour later I figured something out. The dogs weren't having trouble. It was me. My gloves were wet from handling leads.

4:15When found a weak spot in my jacket, and sweat from that first hard climb turned in to cold, that sunk straight to the bone. That kind of cold doesn't just make you uncomfortable, it kind of makes you careless. You start moving more, you rush. You think about the heater and that truck instead of the bear climbing the ridge. And here's the truth, about every winter bear hunt brings it. You hear it isn't about looking good, it's not about brands, trends, it's about staying comfortable, capable, sharp enough to finish the race. Because when those hounds turned that cold drift into a jump bear, the last thing you want to do is fight off the freezing fingers and numb toes. So today, we're going to talk about our gear, we're going to roll it over from last week, we talked about cold care for the dogs.

5:16I'm just going to hit a couple of high spots on this because over the last 10 years probably I have really changed my outlook, I have changed what I wear when I wear it. So we're going to talk about it and hopefully we'll give you guys some tips or tricks, some of you probably already doing it already. I know some of the guys up in the colder climates and snowy climates are probably already doing this. So before we get started, this past week in, we went up to the the western outdoor show up in Fisher'sville, it was a good crowd, Saturday, Lord, it was packed and I mean packed, a lot of people got to meet a lot of, a lot of new people, that was awesome. I always enjoy the conversations and putting the name with a face and, you know, just talking dogs, talking hunting, talking anything, I enjoy it.

6:21And everybody that come by the American Bear Foundation booth and spoke, it talked to us, we appreciate it. I will say that Jake Herrick, for a mountain man, a guy that runs the Walker dogs and a couple English dogs, he was, his booth was right beside ours. So I got to talk to him just a little bit, man, he stayed busy, busy, busy taking pictures, and signing autographs, signing stuff for people. But I did get to spend a few minutes with him. We talked dogs and hunting, you know, and everything comes back to the same thing. It's our love for being in the outdoors and, you know, he and I had a lot of the same thought process and that's what drives me is being in the outdoors. I love being outdoors, I love being in the woods, I love being in the woods with the dogs. I like, I love being on the river, like I like being on the water, like fishing, you know, anything and everything outdoors, I really like it.

7:24Until back in January, we got this brutal weather that come in and, well, changed, changed my perspective on a lot of things. Now I know why people want to move south in the wintertime. One thing that keeps me from doing is I can't hunt down there. I want to hunt up here. So I guess I'm going to stay put. All right. So let's get into the clothing, okay? And guys, everybody does their own thing and you should keep doing your own thing, whatever works for you. But man, if you get your fails, you're not just uncomfortable, you're ineffective. And I have learned that as I've gotten older, things have changed. Like 20 years ago, you didn't have some of the clothing and some of the options that we have now, like a wall was it and cotton had that was it.

8:29So things have changed, you know, just like our tracking systems have changed. Everything becomes newer and better in a lot of ways, not everything's better, but that happens. So we're going to talk about, you know, our base layers and our mid layers, we'll talk about boots. That's a big one. Right? Touch a little bit on gloves and our hands, we're going to talk about electronics because that's a big thing. And we'll roll. All right. So let's talk about our base layers. This is something that I've really changed. This is probably one of the main things that I've changed over the last several years is my base layer. And I'm just going to give you some pros and cons. Let's just do that. I'll give you pros and cons. That's why you can make your own decision. Let's do marino versus synthetic, okay? I don't know how I live without marino wool.

9:32I just don't. Get changed is a game, it was a game changer for me. So here's the pros about marino wool. Marino wool handles moisture better when you stop moving. And in bare hunting, we walk, we stop, we walk, we stop. Like unless the dogs are just actively chasing and we're trying to keep up with that race, you know, we do a lot of walking and stopping and walking and stopping and lessening and tracking. So it handles moisture better when you're moving. It insulates even when it's damp. And when you're standing around, you know, on that reds top or whatever for 20, 30 minutes trying to make a decision or whatever you're doing, taking a break, you know, eat the snack, whatever that may be, it's a huge difference. Marino wool don't stink either. You can wear it multiple days and it's not going to get sour.

10:40It is warmer and breathable. So it regulates your temperature a little better. And it's also quieter and softer to the feel. It's not, it's not slick or plastic. Feel when you're layering up and you may get that a little bit with some of the other stuff. The cons about marino wool, it dries a little slower than synthetic. If you soak it, it stays damp longer. Even though it still gives you that insulation factor, it is more expensive. That is one of the things and through some of the stuff that I talk about, you know, my theory is buy once, cry once. I used to buy stuff multiple times and and then I'm like, well, you know, I got to do better than this. So that's, that's just me personally, but it is a little bit more expensive. And I will say because one of my favorite mid layers, my mid layers is marino.

11:42It does not last, it's not very durable and thick brush. Like I have picked it toward it, tore holes in it, the durability of it, if you're really ruggedy on it, is not where some of the other stuff is. So good thing about marino wool, it forgives you when you sweat, all right, synthetic or polymillions, pros of it, it dries fast. When you're climbing hard and you're, you're vetting layers and stuff, it will dump the moisture pretty quickly. It is more durable. It don't catch and stuff like the marino does. If you're going to be bustin' brires and laurels and blowdowns and stuff, it's going to last you a little longer through the durability. It is usually, it's cheaper most of the time. Lighter weight for the same warmth.

12:45So it is, it is lighter and you can roll it up in your backpack or whatever and it doesn't take up a whole lot of space. It packs better to say the things that the cons about it is once it's wet and you stop movin', you're going to feel it and if anybody, if you guys played football or soccer, those synthetic undershirts and stuff that we wear, you're going to smell it, like you're calling us, smell it. It does hold odor after you wear it today and if you get really hot and sweaty, you're going to know it. So synthetic works a great way you're movin', marino shines when you stop. That's how you look at it, which way you're going to go with it. Early season, warmer winter days, let's just do, I don't know, 25 to 40 degrees.

13:49The lightweight synthetics or marino blends, work fine. When you start getting into the single digits in the teens, your marino, your midweight marino bases are going to be better. Even the marino bottoms, I have marino long johns that I used to not wear long johns at all and I guess we're as I'm getting a little older. The last two years, I've worn more than normal and I don't, I don't know. So we've had some really colder temperatures too, so it buys you time when you stop moving to something to think about it. Cotton, back in the day, this is what we wore, cotton. Cotton is a killer in the winter and why is that? Cotton absorbs water and a lot of it, like a lot of it. The material that is made out of loves water. I mean, once it gets wet, it weighs 20 to 30 times.

14:51It's own weight when you add the moisture to it, so you're adding weight to yourself. So basically if you sweat, you get it in snow, you know, if you're, if you're causing creeks and get it wet, damp air will soak into it. And we all know that like cotton socks is what we used to wear all the time. No, I don't, I don't hardly wear, the only time I wear a cotton sock or a cotton, I wear a synthetic blend sock when I'm at the gym, but other than that, my stuff's marino, like even in the summer time I'm wearing marino stuff ahead, I, I have switched a lot of the stuff that I do, and to me, they're more comfortable. They give me a little bit more padding, but yeah, so cotton will pull it out of the air. Soaks into the, into the fibers cotton does not shed water. It soaks it and holds on to it. So remember that it has less insulation.

15:53So if it gets wet, those fibers collapse, those air pockets in between the fibers disappear. And basically the insulation value in that is mine, it's none, it, it's not existent. And it will pull water from your body. It'll pull, it'll pull that sweat from you and it makes it heavier. So we're going right back into the heaviness and it dries so low, especially in the cold. So anyway, so your mid layers, that's your base layers, your mid layers, you know, fleece, a light wet, weight, puffy, I've got several of the, the down jackets, guys, I cannot wear them when I'm bare hunting, like I'm going to poke holes, tear them up. I got one looks like I've been shredded by, by mountain line, like it's got holes and I've got tape and I've redone it, but I can take that jacket and put it under a light

16:54jacket or another jacket and it is a great, great, great mid layer, like it does really well, but I cannot wear it as an outer layer. But the, the, the puffy and, and the, the fleece, you know, they, they're good for hiking when you're going to buy the dogs. Um, yeah, so let's go to outer layer, water resistant or waterproof, which way we going. Well, let's just kind of look at it. Cold won't beat you nearly as bad as being wet will. And I'm a fair weather hunter, I do not like to be wet again. This is kind of why I've changed my, my wardrobe, my hunting, my hunting attire over the last several years is I don't like to be wet. And if it's pouring down rain, I'm not getting out of the truck, probably not even going hunting. That's just me.

17:55If it's a light rain or it's raining the night before, then I'm going to, I'm going to do things a little different. So we know that waterproof means it's waterproof and water resistant means that it sheds moisture, light moisture. I bought a, uh, a lightweight jacket, rain jacket, I thought it was a rain jacket. I bought it. It was on sale and come to find out it was water resistant and we were in Canada last year, four last. It was, it was pouring down rain. So I throw it on and we had to go into a tree and I didn't get towards 200 yards and I was drenched and I mean drenched, but it was water resistant. It wasn't waterproof. So you know, it'll, it'll, it'll knock off like dry snow, not wet snow, like light flutteries, um, yet contact with the brush and stuff as long as it's brief and it's not overwhelming or saturated, but it's not going to sustain long exposures of moisture.

19:01The water, water resistant isn't, um, they're going to be more breathable and we get talked about waterproof, talk about that. They're usually lightweight, um, and they're, they're better for longer hikes. Cons of them, like I said, the wet snow is going to soak through them, um, setting or milling into snow is the, the moisture is going to penetrate them and long days of dust and the brush just, it's not, it's not going to last. So water resistance is fine until it's not, so you got to keep that in mind. So waterproof, basically, look at our Gore Tech style barriers, right, um, sealed seams, like you'll know if you're looking at a jacket or pants, they're going to have this sealed seams. They're going to be able to have a higher water content, like they're just going to, it's going to block it out, you know, they're built to shed moisture period, um, the pros of

20:05them handles good, you know, it'll handle wet snow, um, melting. I actually wore my rain jacket this year several days, you know, we had snow the, the second week. I had a, like it was hanging on the trees, it was hanging on the lower bushes, like you couldn't go into the woods without getting snow all over you. And, um, I, I just, I wore my rain jacket, I put my hood up over my head and laterally, I, that way it kept going down the back of my neck, which I cannot stand. I don't think anybody can stand that, but, um, yeah, it, it's, it's critical that you have it in rain and heavy snow and it'll keep the wind out too. So it's, it's windproof. It is less breathable and you know if you're wearing a rain jacket, it could be in the middle of summer, you got a t-shirt on and you put a rain jacket on and you do any type of physical activity, whether it's walking, feeding the dogs or whatever you come in and

21:05you're soaked. It's because it don't breathe. It's not letting your, the moisture out. So it'll, it'll trap your sweat in a lot of times, it's a lot more, um, I guess for us by hundreds, it really don't matter because they're, they're, they can be loud when you're going through the brush, um, unless you're trying to sneak into a bay or something, and if it gets extremely cold, like it did once this year with us, like, you know, they can feel stiff, you know, they, they feel stiff. They're not very, uh, fluid, fluid, they don't move fluidly. So waterproof, waterproof keeps the weather out. If you don't, if you don't mind sweating in it because it'll trap it in. So there's that, let's go down to the, to the, to the lower body. All right, let's start there. Boots, man, if it's in the, a topic of the, the century, I seen a lot of post with people um, talking about wearing boots out and I mean, better than there's a rough on boots,

22:07I mean, I, they, they, it, it's just the way it is. And you're walking through the rocks and the timber cuts and, you know, you're on patch, you're in gravel, you're down off the side of the mountain, like it's, um, it is a very, very extreme sport that we do. So boots, I've got, I've got every kind of them and I just, I'll kind of just tell you what I do. I mean, like I said, I see a lot of, um, people that aren't happy with a certain style boot or, or they are, but what, but waterproof, waterproof boots are non-negotiable, okay? They have to be, they have to be not water resistant waterproof. So I prefer kinetrics. I have the, um, the mountain extremes non-insulated. A lot of people like to go with that, you know, that 400 grams of insulation. Some people ate, and if I was, if I was stand hunting, I would probably have to insulate

23:08them on, but as much as I move, I don't, um, I do not like insulated boots, but it is what it is. So I like the kinetrics. That's what I wear during our December season, okay? Um, I do have crispies. I've, I've had a pair of snails. I've got the, the light-thripping suns and I think it's all personal preference, honestly, like it is. It's personal preference. The, the kinetrics, I, like I said, I really like them. I've had mine for several years now. And you say, oh, well, hey, you're not, you're not walking or doing enough to damage them. I only wear them hunting. Like I'd see it. I only wear them when I'm, I'm bare hunting. I don't wear them when I'm deer hunting. I don't, yeah, I don't, I don't think I've had them on other than chasing bare, but, um, I treat mine. In fact, after season this year, pulled the, pulled the shoe strings out of them, washed

24:12them, warm, warm water with a little soap, let them dry for a couple days and then I, I treated them with the, um, the stuff that they recommend. I do that every year, like, so every year. My crispy, Thor 2's, which is a hiking boot, okay? So a lot different. They, that's what I wear during the, the summer and early season up in two September. They're super light. They're almost like a tennis shoe. For me, I need that ankle support. So they've got a really good ankle support and they've lasted longer than I thought they would. They, they actually, they're, they've done really well. So I'm well pleased with those. I think this was my third year with them, second, second, year, third year with them. And I do wear them to canine training sometimes when we're doing track and train, like, when we do our track and class next month, uh, that's what I wear. So I do wear more than just to hone in and I've gotten really good wear out of them.

25:13I, I need a new pair actually. I probably had to do that this summer, but I do, I do like my, the, the Thor 2's, the ish nays. Uh, I don't know, like I said, a lot of people wear the, um, what is it, the bear, the bear tooth, which is almost the same boot as the kinetrek. So each their own, like I said, I don't wear, I don't wear it in, I don't like insulated boots. I do wear a liner sock with my boot. And then I wear it in the winter time. I wear a medium marino wool sock over top of my liner sock. In the early season, and I'm kind of skipping down through this, doing the socks, but since we're talking about boots, I, um, I wear a lightweight marino sock in the early season. And then I have a, I don't go to heavy, I don't have heavy marino. Well, I do probably have two pair of them, three pair, but that's for deer hunting or stand hunting or whatever I may be doing where I'm not moving. I'll have that thicker sock.

26:14But, um, minor lightweight in a, in a summer and spring or spring summer and fall. And then in the winter, I wear the, the medium marinos over top of a liner sock and that's only in my kinetracks. I don't do that with my, my thores. So water price is important. You look at your tread on your boot. You know, what level tread is it? Is it a four? Most people, once you get to that forward, it gets pretty hard. Um, they are slick when you go to crossing wet surfaces. I will say that so you have to be very careful with it. Um, but yeah, and like I said, that's my boots. One thing I've had gators for years, I typically, I last couple of years, I haven't really worn, but this year we had the snow and I threw them in the truck and I actually warms quite a bit this year, but thing, you know, the thing with the gators, if you're crossing creeks and stuff, it helps keep the water from running down the top of your

27:15boot. Same thing with the snow keeps the snow from pushing up into your pants leg and prevent your socks from getting soaked. So I did wear mine quite a bit this year and I think I'm going to just start carrying at as an extra thing in my, my truck. Like I said, I, I warm it into, you don't take five minutes to put them on, it's not a big deal. Pants, let's talk about pants real quick. Again, everybody, each that are owned are so many different companies out there with different, different pants right now. I like to wear the first light saw books, which are kind of like your, it's kind of a, and I was an old car heart car, it was my thing, but these are like an upgrade from car, they're double need. Um, they're made out of polyester and some nylon synthetics material. So they don't absorb much water. Um, basically what it does is it pushes the moisture along the surface and does not let

28:16it soak in and it releases moisture pretty quick when exposed to the air. So, uh, it dries really quick. Like, you know, you can, you can get your pants pretty wet and within 30 minutes or so in normal temperatures, it's going to dry really well. So I, I like that synthetic, doesn't drink water, it just carries it. So it's got that synthetic fibers in it. Um, it does have a woven stretch structure to it. So it, it has a real tight outer layer. So it sheds brush and moisture, light moisture, right? Um, it's enough structure to it to resist saturation. So the way that they, they have made these pants are really, really good. Like I said, it's less bulk. It's, it's a faster drying time. I have several pair of them and in the fall, that's what you're going to see me wearing

29:1890% of the time. I got like three pair of the same color. Everybody's like, you never change your paint. Yeah, like I do, but I've got, I got three pairs. So I'm, I'm constantly wearing, wearing those pants. And if you can find a pant like that, I think you'd be really, you know, happy with it. The one thing that they do have that you need to know about is they have a, um, a DWR treatment, which is a durable water repellent on it. And a lot of hunting pants are starting to do that. That they, they, they soak in this, this treatment. But once you wash your pants so many times, it's going to, um, it's going to start wearing down and your dry time is usually going to slow down. So it's going to take longer to dry. So that finish helps with, um, the moisture. It, like I said, it, it helps brush off the snow. It, it slows down the saturation of, of the moisture.

30:19So those are some things I'm just telling you, maybe look for in your, in your pants, um, no matter what you wear, maybe look for those things. So, um, headgear, I, I mean, I'm either wearing a toboggan or I've got to, it's funny. I got two different hats depending on the temperature. I've got a trucker hat, which has got the open, the mesh back. That way my head can breathe. And then I've got a solid hat. If I'm not wearing a toboggan, a beanie, whatever you don't call it. So I've got three different types of head things that I wear. And depending on the weather and what I'm going to be doing always on what I wear. So I, this year, I think I wore my toboggan more than anything. Actually, I want to back up here because this is going to be an important thing. One of my favorite pieces of clothing is my kiln hoodie that I wear. It's a mid layer.

31:21It is marino. I have probably six or eight of them. And they are my favorite favorite piece of clothing because I can wear them when it's just chilly enough. You need something long sleeve on marino. Remember, it, uh, it takes away the heat. Still give you good installation. I wear it underneath the sweatshirt if I need to put it on. Or I wear it underneath, uh, one of my wool shirts or a heavy jacket. So I have this piece on all the time and I basically start wearing it. The only time I'm not wearing it's probably in the summertime. Like I was just thinking like when I start fishing and into this month, like next weekend, February, like I'll have that piece of clothing on. I wear it all the way up through spring, turkey season. A lot of times I, that's, that's the long sleeve that I have on. And like June and July, I probably won't wear it. And then August, we don't, but in September, when you still start getting those cool mornings,

32:26it's right below 50 and you're riding around the trip up the window down. Like I'll have that on and I wear it all the way through to June again. It's my favorite piece of clothing. And the reason I tell you this is because I wear the ones with hooves. And the reason I wear it is I can pull that up and put it over my, my hat. And I can zip it up. It'll zip all the way up to your chin and it will literally keep the wind off my neck. And it keeps the snow from going down my back in the wintertime. So anyway, that's my, that's one of my favorite pieces. But I reason I tell you that's because you see some people wearing a neckgator to keep the wind off or keeping the snow and the stuff off. They pull it up over their face, you know, to their nose or whatever. So just something to think about dry socks, I'll tell you a story. So I was down at BBs hunting this past fall and I don't know. It's our second day down there maybe and we were hunting around a lot of water.

33:30And BB said, yeah, there's water everywhere. So I had taken my, my hit boots and a dog to treat. And I was like, how wet is it in there? And he's like, oh, it's wet. So I put my hit boots on and Derek and I start down, down, start down through this little, little piece of dry ground. And then we hit the water and we're, we're waiting water. And we were kind of waiting from high spot to high spot. Well, I stepped over in a hole and sunk up in it. We went up to my belt line and so the water run down in my, my hit boot. So I got up onto a high spot and pulled my weight off and shook the water out of it. It took my sock off, my marina wool sock and I, I, I wrenched it out really good to try to dry it off. Put it back on, went on into the tree, got back to the truck where I normally keep a pair of socks in the back passenger side door panel. So we're usually keeping well, I didn't have them. I don't know what happened to them. I don't know if I'd taken them out or what, but I didn't have them. So I had to borrow a pair from Old Big John and, you know, that's something we need, you know, I, I do,

34:31I try to carry extra like socks, a pair of pants and a shirt in my truck. That way if I ever do get, I mean, I, I fell in, I have fell in, fell in. And that's not comfortable. So I try to carry that in my truck and I did not have it that day. I don't know why I didn't have them, but anyway, dry socks and you truck. So let's talk about, let chronic real quick. Well, I'll know that the cold weather will absolutely drain your batteries. I like to keep my, I keep my handheld. I actually have it on my, I have it clipped on my chestery. So I can just flip it up and look at it and I don't have to unclip it. So I'm so forth. But when it's extremely cold, when that, those laurel bushes are, or shriveled up and hanging straight down and you flick one up and it breaks like glass, that's cold. I'll put it underneath. I'll put my jacket over top of my chest rig and stick the handheld down in it and keep

35:32it close to me. So that's something that I do. I carry my phone. There's a pocket in the back of my chest rig and I carry the phone in that pocket. So it's between my chest in the middle and in the chest rig. And I always turn the battery part towards my chest so that my body heat will keep it warm. And I always carry backups. I carry two different types of battery backups. I use the, the dark energy. Everybody knows that the Poseidon Pro. I have the Pro and the Mini. I carry it on my boat with me. I carry it in my truck. I carry it. I carry it in my, the little Mini will go in my chest rig and like it don't take up any space. It's, I mean, it's almost, it's less than the size of a playing card. And if I need, if I need to recharge my stuff, I have that. So I always carry that with me. If you're using batteries like for your head lamps or whatever.

36:34Lithium batteries are going to outperform your alkaline batteries. I use lithium for everything and I learned at the hard way at work. We have lithium batteries at work. All of our weapon systems have lights on them. My, my, my pistol, my, my AR, my shotgun, my taser, everything has lights on it. But one night we were out on a track for a lengthy, a long time. And I run out of batteries and two of my lights. So I bought me a little hard case and actually started sticking batteries and carrying it in my, my kit into my, my chest rig that I wear with my plates and my play carrier. So lithium batteries are the way to go, even though they are a lot more expensive. They are going to outperform your, your regular batteries and they're not going to drain as quick. Emergency blankets. I know we did a podcast with, with our buddy from North Carolina, Mr. Chad. And he always, he talked about carrying some type of emergency blanket.

37:36You can buy those things on Amazon and a pack of four and they fold up to, I mean, they roll up to a little bit of nothing. I do keep a couple of my truck. I have, if I'm carrying a backpack, I have one of my backpack. But if I'm carrying my chest rig, I do not have one in there. But that's just something to think about. So end this up. When the dogs are running the bear in the winter, lose the signal or power. It becomes a safety issue. Not just inconvenience. You got to keep up with them dogs. Right. Non-negotiables. Here we go. Waterproof boots. Marino base layers. I cannot tell you what a game changer it is. If you have not tried Marino, buy us out of Marino. Well, base layers and see if it does not make a huge difference. Like it was a game changer for me. You have a windproof outer shell of some type. Right. We just went over it back up batteries. Bear hunting.

38:36In the winter is about endurance. The better prepared you are, the longer you can stay in the race. It's going to be a wrap for this episode of Creek Side Chronicles. We appreciate you spending your time with us. Whether you're in the truck, in the woods, or sitting by the creek, listening along. Thank you for walking this trail with us. And thank you to WU Supply for hosting the podcast and supporting what we do. Be sure to check them out and go to WSupply.com for all. Of your hand needs. Until next time. Keep your dogs fed right. Get boots muddy. And we'll see you down the trail. Tailgate drops before the light. Coolers packed and the rigs sitting right. Tracking colors charged. Beeping green. Boots in the bed and the rifle's clean. Dog box rattling engines, huh? We're chasing bear till the day is done. Old rain barking like he knows what's near.

39:37Knows to the wind. Tail full of cheer. From the Virginia mountains to the Carolina clay. We're burning fuel in miles each day. Every turns another tail. Through mountain mist and paper trips. We see the sun set red in Tennessee. Rise through the fog in old WV. North Carolina's pines echo loud. With the cry of a heart-run hell. New York forest maize deep snow. Over my valleys where the black bears go. Truck keeps rolling. Wheels don't care. We're chasing daylight. Chasing bear. Restoffs fuel.

40:38The roads are long. But the fire in our heart still burns strong. Wisconsin mornings cutting crisp and clear. Canada's wildwoods drawing near. Still got states. We see the sun set red in Tennessee. Rise through the fog in old WV. North Carolina's pines echo loud. With the cry of a heart-run hell. New York forest maize deep snow. Over my valleys where the black bears go. New York frost maize deep snow. Over my valleys where the black bears go. Truck keeps rolling. Wheels don't care. We're chasing daylight. Chasing bear. Gas station coffee.

41:39Alpha Excel. On the dash. Another background. Another bear track. Friends made fast and stories told slow. Understarts where only hunters go. We see the sunrise gold in Canadian air. And it sits on a trail down in Appalachia. Back in steel and leather. Gritting care were built for the road. And chasing bear. So load the dogs and slam the gate. There's a trail ahead. We won't be late. We don't have dust. We're always there. Chasing daylight. Chasing and bear.

42:47Chasing and bear. Chasing and bear. Chasing and bear.