The mountains don’t deal in ideas or moral posturing. They teach respect through participation, consequence, and proximity to life and death, lessons that seem to be needed in our society that is so disconnected from reality. Time spent there instills a kind of reverence that’s hard to explain from a distance. Hunting in the mountains isn’t separation from nature, but participation in it, where the land, the animals, and the outcome are real, and the consequences impossible to ignore when you’re standing in it.