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It's happening again. Every year around Labor Day some of my chums and I start to feel the first subtle symptoms of our annual affliction. It comes on slowly and builds steadily. Within two weeks we will be fully in its grip and totally at its mercy. Strange as it may seem to the uninformed or uninitiated, we do not dread or fear the onset of the disorder. In fact, we eagerly anticipate and await its arrival. It is not known to be life threatening; to the contrary, some of its victims can be said, without exaggeration, to live for it. There is no medical term for the condition. We sufferers call it "Hawk Watching Fever". A cure has not been found, but some highly effective treatments do exist. Read on for one version of the remedy. |
Every year around Labor Day ... I start to feel the first subtle symptoms of my annual affliction. |
Get together with a handful or more of similarly stricken friends and proceed to high ground, preferably a spot which affords you at least a 180 degree view into the distance when you are facing north. The group approach is important for several reasons: |
Success is somehow sweeter when it is shared. |
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You may chose as your vantage point a proven site such as Mt. Wachusett in central Massachusetts, Hawk Mountain in eastern Pennsylvania, or Hawk Ridge in Duluth, Minnesota. Or pick a place, as yet undiscovered, based on reasons as concrete as convenience or as intangible as intuition. Keep in mind that the flyway is a wide path rather than a thin line, and it is certainly not as well defined as, let's say, an interstate highway. [ Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 ] |
