Season Opener
awoke at 3:30am on a Saturday to the sound of rain drumming on the rooftop. It was an inauspicious start for the opening day of the 2020-2021 Game-Bird Season. I had packed the truck the previous day, so all I had to do was pull on my boots, make some breakfast, load the lunch cooler, feed the dog, and secure her in the truck kennel. I grabbed my coffee mug and was out the door and on my way an hour later. I had decided to forego an expected opening weekend crowd of bird hunters on Mauna Kea, opting instead for 30,000-acre
