Weird season hard to get excited about hunting

[JDHasty]

Looks like Idaho and Montana are burning up too. Looking at the "Incident Management Situation Report," Idaho, Montana, and Washington have 12 fires listed for each state.

What's amazing is Wyoming has none. Zero.

I'm thankful for that since Wyoming is my first hunt of the year. We'll be leaving in 2 1/2 weeks. Will be nice to get out of this smoky state for a while!

I was in Omak/Okanogan for Stampede week and it was rather smoky from Thursday on through Monday when we left.  There wasn't already fire camp at the Okanogan County Fair Ground when we pulled in Wednesday morning, where we stay every year, for the first time in a long time.  They started to pour in Saturday evening though. 

Five new lightning fires started on (I believe) Thursday night. 

It was burning in Scotch Creek on Friday down in the bottom and when I was up there Saturday it was on top and appeared to me to be gaining.  The USFS guy I talked with disagreed with my assessment and said that they had cut fire breaks and were back burning and it was pretty much contained.  He was entitled to his opinion, let's just leave it at: I was a bit skeptical regarding his optimism. 

I was in Nespelem on Friday visiting with Tribal member friends.  They were run out of the woods because there was a good size fire going on the Res up north of 'spelem.  There was also a pretty good size one going to the east of Riverside.

Last Monday, on the way to Eburg to drop my RV before heading to Montana there was a burn from just south of Pateros all the way to Beebe Bridge.     

We left Omak on Monday and went to Helena Montana for a few days and then up to my cousin's ranch in Augusta and both were quite smoky.  Helena was smokey, and that is kinda' normal for Helena which sits in a bowl, but not so much for Augusta.  On Friday night a pretty good wind blew down from Canada and that cleared things up a bit.  Missoula was really smokey though and the Bitterroot Valley had health warnings, Idaho has a lot of fires going right now too.

I feel really sorry for people visiting Glacier Park, ones I talked to said they could barely see the white line on the side of the road.  I suggested they head down to Yellowstone because my dad said the air was pretty clear down south.     

Crazy lot of fire this year.   

 

[cryder]

PRIORITIES !! Couldn't put any better, PERZACKLY ,, ABSAGULOOLLY !!

[huntingbaldguy]

My birthday party is this Saturday.  My family asked me 2 weeks ago what i wanted for my birthday.  I said a week of rain.  10 day forecast says i'm getting what i want.

[huntnnw]

This thread .....so did you go hunting when a hurricane displaces 100X what these fires have done? or how about a earthquake ? or genocide? etc. Theres always something going on around the world.

[Duckslayer89]

This thread .....so did you go hunting when a hurricane displaces 100X what these fires have done? or how about a earthquake ? or genocide? etc. Theres always something going on around the world.

Did I somehow miss a genocide in Washington State?

[huntnnw]

point is there are people dying, losing there homes somewhere at almost any given time in the world..you gonna stop hunting ? odd mentality

Even if my house burnt down due to a forest fire,Id be finding away to hit the woods. Far more important things in life such as being alive than worrying about stuff that burned its mostly replaceable and its just stuff! would I be sad if some of my mounts burned up? hell yeah.

[Duckslayer89]

I know I'm jk I hear you. I know I won't stop...

[Duckslayer89]

Nice bear BTW huntnnw!

[Bigshooter]

This thread .....so did you go hunting when a hurricane displaces 100X what these fires have done? or how about a earthquake ? or genocide? etc. Theres always something going on around the world.

 
My first thought was I went hunting right after 9/11.  Why would some fires stop me now?

[huntnnw]

I was elk hunting when I heard about 9/11

[cryder]

I wish you the best of luck,and im mostly speaking of your luck of not being by some of the fools who will be out there with you, that don't have a clue as to what there doing or drinking or smokeing , don't forget its leagal to be impaired in Washington wooded areas, and believe me they are ! :bash:I have missed two hunting seasons in the last 35 years , one to get married and one to eject some cancer tissue my doctor just had to get his hands on it seemed,this year just seems stupid , to give any effort at all so I can be told to get out while I still can , or to be carried out because I cant.Hope to see some good pics. on here so I can curse myself afterwords.

[huntnnw]

Never will you see me missing a hunting season I better be physically unable to hunt is the only way. Wedding hell no! That's what all the other months are for. There are two types of hunters on here.. Some that do it cause it's something to do or the ones who live for it.

[Jonathan_S]

Wedding hell no! That's what all the other months are for.

 

hope my wife doesn't see this 

[Little Dave]

Not too unusual.  It was a lot like this back in 78.

They say you are what you eat, go out there and roll around in a smelly wallow and get ready.

[BUTTER]

They elk must not care from what I've been hearing the elk have been going Ape Sh!+