Yesterday was a clean up day at one of the hunting camps and the subject of backpack hunts came up while shooting the bull around the night campfire. One of the questions was how many days did we do. One guy said he and another hunter was out 7 days because they got caught in a two day snow/wind storm.
I and another hunter packed for a 5 day elk hunt and he tagged one late on the 4th day. Brent stayed in camp the next morning and I was to hunt until 11:00 am then we would break camp and pack out. I was thinking about tag soup on the way back to camp and stumbled on to a bull and 7 cows. Brent heard my shot and came looking for me. We broke the bull down and decided I would stay another night and he would pack out to the trailhead and come back the next morning. So 6 days was my longest trip.
