Safety orange

She's headed to a trailhead she found on all trails last night.

There's a guy in full blaze orange who's been coming to this exact spot for 30 years on this exact weekend over and over and over.

This is his place.

This is his gateway.

It just happens every morning all across the state and frankly all across this country.

And I bring this up because I think we spend a lot of time in places like this talking about the outdoor community like it's some single cohesive coordinated thing, and it is absolutely not.

It's a Bronco in a drift boat and a rental kayak and 30 years of Blaze Orange all idling next to each other, all buying beef jerky from the same crotchety guy behind the counter.

And our job, your job today, is to remember that that gas station is the truth, and the way we work and what we do in the office is us to catch up on that.

It goes by a whole bunch of names.

Day Glow Orange, Fluorescent Orange, and Blaze Orange is another thing I've heard.

Either way, it's designed to keep you safe.

if you're

So why would you do that? That's true.

The universal hunting...

Across the country is blaze orange, fluorescent orange.

I'm going to say that at some point somebody invented that and said, boy, we could almost see that in the dark.

... we, we-

Blaze Orange.

If we-

Shout out Blaze, Blaze Orange.

Yeah.

Shout out Blaze Orange.

So anyways, uh-

I almost forgot that.