What draws someone into falconry, and what about it makes them develop such a monkish devotion to its practice? Friedrich Nietzsche may not have been a falconer, but his famous quote, “And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you” is as good an answer as any why this small community of disciples can be found on the prairie, the desert, and in the woods, sending their birds aloft in search of game in a cycle as old as history itself.
STORY BY CHAD LOVE
PHOTOS BY TYLER SLADEN