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I guess I can understand why you blotted out your face. But puttin' a bag over the Elk's head seem excessively paranoid.
LOL
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God willing, I also still plan to go backpack hunting well into my retirement. i am 35 years now
Good luck with *that*. At 35 I would climb and descend 6 mountain ridges just to avoid the crush of opening day. At 62 I need to construct a plan to make it from the recliner to the chitter. ,...cain't be fuggin' around, either. First fart, it's time to start planning or I end up chittin' the chair. The wife don't understand. She's younger than me,....and doesn't eat as much fiber. LMFAO!
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I guess I can understand why you blotted out your face. But puttin' a bag over the Elk's head seem excessively paranoid.
LOL Cryin’
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Here is how we do it in Idaho. About ten minutes after I snapped this pic, I watched a five point bull walk into the saddle between the yellow quakies on the opposite ridge. previously laser ranged at about 400 yds. It took nearly an hour to hike down to the bull for field dressing. loaded for the trip home rest stop about half way back to camp.
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backpack hunting? For me, it was sheep hunting I took everything I needed for a 10 day hunt in a pack on shanks mare.
I use a backpack when I'm moose hunting too, but most often there's other transport involved, boat, atv etc.
I'm too old and beat up now, and it pisses me off. I walked those mountains with a heavy load more than a few times. Made you feel like an old man, and that is what I turned into.
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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Same location one year later My buddy with elk I shot Tent on top of thirteen inches of snow. night time lows about 10 degrees F I built this harness for the coolers. The coolers help keep water from freezing at night and protect foodstuffs on the way in. We have fresh eggs and orange juice or milk each morning for breakfast for five or six days.
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Is that Quandary Peak behind you in the last pic?, Alamosa?
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these photos are brilliant. love the one of the horse looking beyond the saddle probably ponderingwhether it will be expected to forge a path ahead... keep them.coming
Hunting is not just a hobby, its a lifestyle! For those of you interested in checking out some hunting photos, check out my personal hunting website: www.mountainman.co.nzMM
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and for thosw who watched and enjoyed my hunting films for day 1 and 2 then i am pleased to announce that day 3 is now ready at the following youtube link https://youtu.be/7GHAm_1T7IY
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Is that Quandary Peak behind you in the last pic?, Alamosa? If it is the pic I think then that is an unnamed mountain in the San Miguel Range. I haven't hunted Quandry, but my 15 minutes of fame came when I survived a night in a blizzard on that mountain decades ago.
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Horses ain't going up goat mountains. Some will.
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Is that Quandary Peak behind you in the last pic?, Alamosa? If it is the pic I think then that is an unnamed mountain in the San Miguel Range. I haven't hunted Quandry, but my 15 minutes of fame came when I survived a night in a blizzard on that mountain decades ago. Damn - I can imagine.
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And for those ( still) interested here is day 4 of my backpack hunting adventure into Victoria's Great Dividing Range https://youtu.be/72lNiisgfQQ
Hunting is not just a hobby, its a lifestyle! For those of you interested in checking out some hunting photos, check out my personal hunting website: www.mountainman.co.nzMM
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Backpack hunting for me means freezing my ass off and sleeping on the ground....:) Much prefer this these days... fubar, one looks like a “spike camp” the other a Ritz Carlton...Good camps. 😎
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What does backpack hunting, and being a backpack hunter, mean to you??? I am 35 years old now but I started backpack hunting at 14 years old with my hunting mentor - named Stan Lowe. He was in his 60s at the time and was a forestry colleague of my father's. Stan Lowe showed me places in the remote and rugged NZ mountains that took such a firm grip on me tat i gave up all competitive sports to focus on backpack hunting. I lived and breathed it. And every backpack hunt was hard graft; every animal killed ended up in the kicthen pot and then spoken of on a Sunday night roast dinner where i would reflect on my adventures and share them with my family who were not huntwrs; but appreciated the venison or wild pork. My first solo backpack hunt was an overnight trip into the Kaimais of new zealand (North Island) and I was only 16 years old. But by the age of 17years i had finished school and left home - and spent every breathing moment looking at maps for the next backpack hunting location. And at the time, I would backpack hunt in pursuit of wild pigs, red deer or sika deer - species all of which were scattered throughout the state forests and national parks of my region. At 18 i moved out of the local district to go to univeristy and onto bigger and better pastures. The Southern Alps of Nz. A backpack hunters paradise. Chamois, Tahr, Pigs, red deer, Wapiti (elk)... all became part of the staple diet. Fast forward to today and i am blessed with a beautiful wife and two beautiful daughters 6 and 4years old. And while I love them all dearly - with a love that has no finite end - I also have this burning desire to leave them for weeks during the year to quench my other endless passion - backpack hunting. How can i be so selfish to leave my young family, i sometimes ask myself? But the call of the wild is strong. And i need it to feel complete. I need my family but i also need the remote wilderness. Backpack hunting has taken such a firm hold of me that it is hard for me to place in words. What does being a backpack hunter mean to you? I am now trying my hand at self-filming my backpack hunting expeditions in hope that film will convey what words alone cannot. Here is a recent backpack hunting adventure for Sambar deer into the Victorian Alpine National Park of Australia. My hunting films are generally not short action packed films that tell the whole story in the time it takes to play a rock song... They are intended to simmer away at what it means to me to be a backpack hunter. day 1 https://youtu.be/MiBy-_w2NSYday 2 https://youtu.be/630uF7oKYCUBest wishes from the Southern Hemishphere and God Bless MountainMan Well schitt, I guess it would mean five horses all died in the same year. And it would mean an epidemic had also wiped out the cow herd in the pasture. Cause I ain't never been hungry enough to carry meat out six to ten miles. I thought about it once, back in 1983. But quickly said phouck that! We went home and came back with the horses. I tried carrying a back pack once. Fall of 1974. Three miles in, started at 10,000 feet, camped at 13,000 ft. Started with 30 lbs, ended up with 50 lb, because I and two other gents lightened the loads of three young women, all from coastal areas, who were suffering from the altidude. It ended up being a five mile walk downhill, coming home, with the fifty pound pack. It took ten years for the shin splints to heal. Phouck that! That is why God gave us horses. ....50lb... that is just a warm up!! I have back packed in some 75 to 80lb of gear into the nz mountains on 10 day huntingtrips. That is living my friend and its nothing to scorn at. Horses would be niCe too for those long hauls into remote country. What do you folks have against horses.
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What does backpack hunting, and being a backpack hunter, mean to you??? I am 35 years old now but I started backpack hunting at 14 years old with my hunting mentor - named Stan Lowe. He was in his 60s at the time and was a forestry colleague of my father's. Stan Lowe showed me places in the remote and rugged NZ mountains that took such a firm grip on me tat i gave up all competitive sports to focus on backpack hunting. I lived and breathed it. And every backpack hunt was hard graft; every animal killed ended up in the kicthen pot and then spoken of on a Sunday night roast dinner where i would reflect on my adventures and share them with my family who were not huntwrs; but appreciated the venison or wild pork. My first solo backpack hunt was an overnight trip into the Kaimais of new zealand (North Island) and I was only 16 years old. But by the age of 17years i had finished school and left home - and spent every breathing moment looking at maps for the next backpack hunting location. And at the time, I would backpack hunt in pursuit of wild pigs, red deer or sika deer - species all of which were scattered throughout the state forests and national parks of my region. At 18 i moved out of the local district to go to univeristy and onto bigger and better pastures. The Southern Alps of Nz. A backpack hunters paradise. Chamois, Tahr, Pigs, red deer, Wapiti (elk)... all became part of the staple diet. Fast forward to today and i am blessed with a beautiful wife and two beautiful daughters 6 and 4years old. And while I love them all dearly - with a love that has no finite end - I also have this burning desire to leave them for weeks during the year to quench my other endless passion - backpack hunting. How can i be so selfish to leave my young family, i sometimes ask myself? But the call of the wild is strong. And i need it to feel complete. I need my family but i also need the remote wilderness. Backpack hunting has taken such a firm hold of me that it is hard for me to place in words. What does being a backpack hunter mean to you? I am now trying my hand at self-filming my backpack hunting expeditions in hope that film will convey what words alone cannot. Here is a recent backpack hunting adventure for Sambar deer into the Victorian Alpine National Park of Australia. My hunting films are generally not short action packed films that tell the whole story in the time it takes to play a rock song... They are intended to simmer away at what it means to me to be a backpack hunter. day 1 https://youtu.be/MiBy-_w2NSYday 2 https://youtu.be/630uF7oKYCUBest wishes from the Southern Hemishphere and God Bless MountainMan Well schitt, I guess it would mean five horses all died in the same year. And it would mean an epidemic had also wiped out the cow herd in the pasture. Cause I ain't never been hungry enough to carry meat out six to ten miles. I thought about it once, back in 1983. But quickly said phouck that! We went home and came back with the horses. I tried carrying a back pack once. Fall of 1974. Three miles in, started at 10,000 feet, camped at 13,000 ft. Started with 30 lbs, ended up with 50 lb, because I and two other gents lightened the loads of three young women, all from coastal areas, who were suffering from the altidude. It ended up being a five mile walk downhill, coming home, with the fifty pound pack. It took ten years for the shin splints to heal. Phouck that! That is why God gave us horses. ....50lb... that is just a warm up!! I have back packed in some 75 to 80lb of gear into the nz mountains on 10 day huntingtrips. That is living my friend and its nothing to scorn at. Horses would be niCe too for those long hauls into remote country. What do you folks have against horses. absolutely nothing i would love to hunt in by horse back but some of.the New Zealand terrain simply is not suitable for.anyrhing other than your owm shanks pony!!
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Hunting is not just a hobby, its a lifestyle! For those of you interested in checking out some hunting photos, check out my personal hunting website: www.mountainman.co.nzMM
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My hike in backpack camp. 3 tarps and rope with timber frame and rock work for back wall. Use it all season and take down when snow flies.
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