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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.

12 days sheep hunting in the Chugach.

Used to do 10 day elk hunts.

I’ve done a couple at 8ish days, and about to head out on a 11 day deal,

Fingers crossed it won’t take all 11 days….🤞

15 days is the longest I’ve done on a sheep hunt.

longest was years ago 13-15 days north of Flin-Flon ,Manitoba,Canada about 100 miles north of ,left out of a indian village got to by train, then by boat, then portage in many miles and tent camp .we were invited by the Chief of the Cree Indian village was a real eye opener. we fished plenty it was in August bugs were bad no bug spray so we had a smoke fire going always .man did we catch fish lots of walleyes and northerns.

14 day archery bighorn hunt in CO many years ago and another 14 day'r...archery Stone sheep in BC 9 yrs ago. Did not shoot a ram on either hunt but sure got in good shape.

Also a 15 day backpack archery Mt Caribou hunt in the Spatzizi in BC in 2020. My buddy rifled one and I arrowed on day 9 of the season (we had gone in a day before season started) so no sharing meat loads. Was a 5 day pack-out with 3 trips each for the meat and camp. Was going on 68 years old and the 50 km hike loaded across tundra, muskeg, willows, mountains was a good challenge that pushed me to limits that I thought were in my past, not counting the return trips with just the empty pack! This was a fly-in to a remote lake to get dropped off, use the InReach to tell them to send the Beaver in when we were ready to get picked up.

Been on several sheep hunts that lasted between 12-15 days.

Tough to carry enough food for that many days afield but sure is nice about day 10 when the pack is getting increasingly smaller!

13 days NW Quebec caribou. Having fish to catch and eat helped, plus grouse

now 6 to 7 days max for me

I think my longest backpack hunting trip was a day or two over a week, usually 3-4 days. I have an upcoming Dall hunt next August and that's going to be ten days (unsure if we'll need all ten days, going to have a grizzly tag in my pocket if it doesn't!).

I'm about three weeks out on a 200 mile, two week trip in the Sierra's (non-hunting). Any trip that requires a resupply is a long one

8 days is the longest I recall. Our deer/elk rifle hunts are usually a week long.

23 weeks, back in the mid 80's, but can't say where or what we were hunting. Might still be classified.

Did 14 days on a planned 16 day trip with another fellow. We managed to make a 22oz bottle of white gas last the entire time, cooking/simmering real food for dinner every night on the MSR Simmerlite (which doesn't simmer worth a crap unless you back off the can pressure), and making him hot water for breakfast oatmeal and coffee about half the mornings. That was pretty impressive, I thought.

I shot a goat on day 2, fleshed the full hide that afternoon, then humped meat to an ice cave on day 3. Fine meat, that was.