Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Backpack Hunting I'm leaving ON a jetplane... to Idaho!

FWIW, I'm boarding a plane for SLC early tomorrow. Hope to be at Rock Chuck's and the Mrs.' by tomorrow evening. Currently I'm wondering if I can fly 4 1/2 hours holding my breath with a plastic bag over my head.


We'll be heading up to the Sawtooths or Pioneers on Sunday AM with llamas aboard.
Searching for a nice mulie buck. Rock Chuck already got his last week so we'll see if Snubbie gets some of his good hunting mojo.

Wish us luck.

Report in a week or so...

Good luck!

Good luck. Hadn't heard that subject line in a while.....

Good luck on your hunt. Sounds like a great time. We saw a few smaller mule bucks last week up high hunting moose. Report back with lots of photos.

Good luck Snubbie

Looking forward to the pictures!

This hunt might be like some of you have in the SW. The weather is much warmer than normal. We haven't had a single freeze yet, a month late, and even in the mountains above 7k the nights are above freezing. Daytime temps are in the 60's. It looked more like this last year at this time. We got 2 deer last Friday and were seriously concerned about getting the meat cooled. The days were t-shirts and I never did put on anything more than a heavy shirt.

Long trip and long day from NC yesterday. Headed out shortly. I only have cooler weather gear save for the one t-shirt I wore traveling. Weather looks like it may cool a bit the next few days. Otherwise this shirt's gonna be stinkin!

Good luck. Sounds like rain and snow are coming in tonight and tomorrow.

good luck Snubbie

Back from the mountains, still in Idaho.
We had a great trip, saw somw beautiful country, we hiked and climbed some rugged country and watched the high country go from fall to winter in a matter of hours as we hunted in a snowstorm that covered the surrounding high peaks. We had a first-class camp setup and a first class experience overall. We saw lots of game; antelope, moose, even watched two herds of elk in the evening twilight with bulls still bugeling. Overall about 25 elk, 30 antelope, 2 moose bulls. Makes me happy to know there's still wild places to go to see this.
But we were after deer and strangely, saw none. We even pulled up stakes and moved camp over into an entirely different drainage. We went to Rock Chuck's secret honey hole where we found lots of sign but no deer. Running out of time and awaking to rain the last day, we decided to head on back, said goodbye to the Idaho mountains, and drove back to RC's abode where we spent the afternoon cleaning and drying gear.

So it was a great trip. As most of you know, the success or failure of a trip doesn't depend on bagging your quarry or else most of our trips would be failures! Spending time in the mountains and enjoying the beauty of God's creation with a friend just can't be beat.
I drive back to SLC today and fly back to NC early Saturday. I'll do a more detailed trip report with photos after I get home.
Thanks for the well wishes!

Deer hunting was lousy but you sure can't knock the scenery. Camp was at about 7600' and those peaks are about 10k.

Beautiful country no doubt!