Native American friend asked my wife for an elk hide from my next elk. I told the wife “hell no I’m exhausted just carrying boned out meat. My hunting partner is much nicer he volunteered to flesh one out salt it & bring it home.
He got a nice fat cow one hole in the vitals, spent at least another hour making sure the hide was clean before we packed out his & mine from the same group. He had laid the hide out Hair up the day before on a flat clean patch of snow. Last trip the next morning he was ready to carry it out only about a mile. Sadly it was frozen solid to the ground. We tried to pry it up but no luck - I offered to pee on the edges to melt the ice so he could carry it down the hill.....he declined & didn’t volunteer again.
