I’ve been unemployable all my life-so scribbling and lecturing is about all I do. I’ve had this fundamental problem all my life and now my children are suffering from it as young adults. What profession other than writing would you like to participate in? When I’m cooking with Jim Harrison, he’s also very fond of the word. It’s a metabolic state grizzlies go in late in the year when they have to lay on the fat for hibernation. There’s a word associated with grizzly bears that I’m fond of, it’s called hyperphagia. His most recent books are Walking It Off and The Essential Grizzly (the latter was co-written with his wife Andrea). He is a champion for the endangered bear, was one of Edward Abbey’s closest friends, and is the person who inspired Abbey’s Hayduke character in The Monkey Wrench Gang. There he discovered grizzlies, whom he says saved his life and became the subject of his first novel. He discovered them as a backpacking teenager who just wanted to be alone and crawled into the mountains “like a wounded animal” after Vietnam. But if you ask Doug where home really is, he’ll tell you it’s up and down the Rocky Mountains from Canada all the way to Mexico. The two lay up fat for the winter (just like the bears before hibernation) over the neighborhood BBQ. Doug Peacock’s home is not far from Bozeman, near his friend Jim Harrison’s.
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