3/10/2023 0 Comments Infuse energy login![]() ![]() I had no idea how I got there or how to get to where I wanted to go, so I camped at Carver Access on the Buffalo National River. I made a huge circle on dirt rounds all through Newton County until I reached Mt. I was only about two miles from the road to Richland Creek Recreation Area, but I haven't been there in several years, and I couldn't find the unmarked road in the dark. ![]() 22, but I got lost, more lost than I've ever been. I was on schedule to arrive at about 8 p.m. It's a running joke that I always tell the group I'll show up to camp on a Friday about 7 p.m. Now Felty and Kelly have injected a new jolt of youth into the group. My daughter Amy and Paul Crutchfield's daughter Sydney hunted with us for a few years, but they eventually outgrew us, as well. The distractions of late teenhood and young adulthood took them to new pursuits. My sons hunted with us for several years, as did Wayne's son Austin Crutchfield and several of Crutchfield's nephews of that age. Kids need more action, so we had to redouble our hunting efforts. That had become customary, but we didn't mind when it was just us adults hunting. ![]() We hunted in the Hurricane Creek Wilderness Area and, as usual, we didn't see many squirrels. Brian Couch of Prattsville is also a longtime member of the group and a raconteur extraordinaire around a campfire.įelty and Kelly joined the group in 2017, when we hunted near Fairview Recreation Area with federal magistrate judge Joe Volpe and his son John Volpe of Little Rock. They are nephews and cousins of Wayne Crutchfield and Paul Crutchfield of Poyen, two original members of an event that has occurred since the 1980s. The boys are Karter Felty, 13, of Poyen and Carson Kelly, 11, of Prattsville. These boys weren't even born when I joined the annual Crutchfield Family Squirrel Hunt in 2005. ![]()
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