Breakdown, Recovery, and the Outdoors

Inheriting a love of the outdoors from his parents turned into the way out of a schizo-affective disorder the Vietnam War put Mike Reynolds through. The outdoors healed him as much as the therapy and medication his doctors at the veterans' hospital ordered. Without God' s earth, Mike stood a snowball' s chance in Hell of making it. But he did make it with a fishing rod, shotgun, skis, and his girlfriend' s sobriety (helping him with his own). Her newborn daughter helped, too.