Silk and FTFs High Hunt Adventure!

[SilkOnTheDrySide]

Just met up with Scott and we are off for nine days! No service so you will have to wait until next weekend for all the juicy details!

[Wea300mag]

Give em hell guys!

[Ridgerunner]

Looking forward to the report!

[bowhunterforever]

Good luck

[Bean Counter]

Shoot a big coyote or two!

[savagehunter]

get some

[robertsjd]

go get em guys good luck

[dreamingbig]

Good luck guys!

[Hunter mike]

What does your food list look like for 9 days?  I'm at 6lbs for 4-5 days.  Had trouble getting enough calories this time so I overpacked a bit.  Going to bring some Olive Oil for extra calories.

[SilkOnTheDrySide]

Just got out. We've been fogged in since Sunday... Scott passed on a great bear Friday....regretting it now. Deer skunked us.
We'll get some pictures up soon of the massive fog waves that kept rolling in.

[Skyvalhunter]

Well at least you made it out in one piece.

[fillthefreezer]

was a great trip, quite the adventure. back to the drawing board as id expected to come home with tag punched

[jackelope]

Did the fog run you guys out?

[SilkOnTheDrySide]

Did the fog run you guys out?

Yup.  2.5 days of it, our partner came in and said the forecast was looking the same through Friday (with snow expected at our elevation).

[savagehunter]

Yeah we were right under the fog and it looked pretty bad above 6000 feet hard enough to see dee when its clear let alone add fog or rain to the mix

[SWHUNTER]

Well at least you made it out in one piece.

No kidding. That was the worst lightning storm I have ever rode out in the high country. I couldn't count to 5 between lightning strikes.

[JM]

I've got video and pictures of the storm at 7000 ft but it's too large to put on this site

[SilkOnTheDrySide]

The fireball helped sleep   Thank god we stashed it during scouting...

[JM]

Fireball?? we packed in 2 fifths of R&R for the trip and finished them off that night 40 ft away from the tents under a tarp that didn't have any metal in it!

[Skyvalhunter]

I've got video and pictures of the storm at 7000 ft but it's too large to put on this site

Nothing a little quick resizing in paint won't cure for those pictures

[hillbillyhunting]

We headed away from our tents and down the ridge for that storm too.  We put on our rain gear and brought our tarp down hill and hunkered down under a tree and the tarp.  That made for a long night.  No booze for me... couldn't justify the weight.  Road out the storm though... after heat, lightning, fog, fog, fog, snow, sleet, rain, it turned nice and we were able to glass again.

[SilkOnTheDrySide]

We headed away from our tents and down the ridge for that storm too.  We put on our rain gear and brought our tarp down hill and hunkered down under a tree and the tarp.  That made for a long night.  No booze for me... couldn't justify the weight.  Road out the storm though... after heat, lightning, fog, fog, fog, snow, sleet, rain, it turned nice and we were able to glass again.

Duh...that's why you stash it on scouting trips

[xXLojackXx]

I thought about the fact that I was surrounded by titanium poles during that lightning storm while atop a mountain.  My dad and I had 3 trees fall within 100 yards of our tents from the lightning. Needless to say there wasn't much sleep that night.