This essay is a look back at my 2016 archery elk season and what really kicked off a formalized effort to share complete accounts of my hunting seasons with audiences beyond my close friends. For all the years prior to this point, my hunting “Rut Reports” would go out as emails accompanied by photos of highs and lows of what each archery season had provided. (And that actually goes way back, even before the social adoption of email, to the 90’s when I’d haul photo albums around with me!)