When I was young and single and living in Montana, I spent a lot of my free time wandering the hills and mountains.  I was shed hunting, bear hunting, or fishing mountain lakes.  I called every trip a scouting trip and I could find elk in the country south of Livingston, Montana.  Of course the sad part of my story started when I moved to Washington state to actually make some money.  Now I just read internet chat rooms or my Bugle magazine and do my scouting on the computer.  I always promise myself I will get out a few times after the snows recede and walk the country I will hunt, but you know, it is always something.