I have always had kind of an aggressively active life. I have always lived at the base of a very steep hill that some would call a mountain, and found that I enjoyed hiking that hill and all over the top of it, in almost all kinds of weather.
However, here I am now at 80, and I find that the old body has some limits. I find myself hunting much closer to home, and a lot of the long-distance scouting has become a thing of the past. There does come a time when things just have to slow down, and in my case that slow-down has begun. I know there are a lot of guys that can keep going to a much older age, and I truly envy those people with those genes, but as Clint Eastwood used to say, "A man's gotta know his limitations".