That was wet...

[Odell]

Can’t remember hunting so many consecutive days in heavy rain on the east side in September. It was wet wet in the Bumping.

Good times.

Also rain gear is apparently worthless


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[elkrack]

Definitely the wettest September I can remember. I haven’t ponied up to get the expensive stuff yet and always am cursing myself when I’m soaking wet either from sweat or the rain! A wet day in the woods still tops a day at work 

[Odell]

Somehow in my work to get things dry i took my insoles our of my boots and hunted three days without them. I kept wondering why my feet were so cold and why my boots felt a half size too big.

One of those things that after you figure it out you wonder how you could be so dumb. Covered a lot of miles like that too


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[elkchaser54]

I just finished two weeks in Idaho and had 9/13 days of being rained on. It was rough.  Drank whiskey instead of hunting mainly this year.

[sneakyjake]

That’s funny about the insoles. I’ve done that. 

[KFhunter]

3 days into the elk hunt I got sick, vomiting fever whole works, still recovering!  guts all messed up and zero energy


thanks kids for bringing home your school crud to daddy 


every freaking year I get the school crud!!      

but ya it was wet on the east side, and I was in a tent but at least I had a tarp over the tent, still nothing dries

[Sitka_Blacktail]

The jet stream must have been a bit south this year. In Alaska, I fish out of a town that gets about 150 inches of rain a year. We had a drought for a couple months this summer. The reservoir dried up. Salmon couldn't get up the streams because there was no water. The ones that found pools to hold up in were dying by the hundreds if not thousands from lack of oxygen.  It started cutting loose the last week up there. But never seen anything like it for dry.

Bizzaro world

[slavenoid]

That rain broke me down. I quit early way too many times this year. Not how I pictured my season going.

[mossback91]

Damn near killed me up in the rimrock on opening weekend when I was packing my camp out Saturday night along with down pouring on me while quartering an elk earlier in the evening. Made me never want to go back!

[trophyhunt]

Two words, kuiu Yukon

[dreadi]

We had a few spurts of rain in the Colockum and I always pack rain gear in the tent. Depending on weather I may pack a rain jacket on my pack. A couple times I got caught short and ducked under a tree to stay dry. It also helps if you treat your clothes  pre season so that they shed water if you get caught without the rain gear.

[dmoua]

Two words, kuiu Yukon

 

[nitroelk]

  That had to have been the wettest and coldest early hunt ever. At least the elk were bugling a lot.

[pianoman9701]

10/14 days raining in the Lewis unit. Picked a campsite that someone had spread straw all over - wonder what that was for? Oh yeah, it was because the campsite flooded regularly. One saving grace for me was my propane Peet boot dryer and my reconditioned Lowa boots were solid, even at 8 years old.. The Old Cabela's MT50 rain gear just made me sweat like a pig. My partner from AZ was not prepared even though he moved there from here (Washelkhunter). It gold so cold Wednesday, I thought snow was possible. One other great thing: the mice figured out to get in my pop-up the first night. Had one crawl across my face. Lovely.

[Timberstalker]

 

[Bhunter253]

Two words, kuiu Yukon

 

Another  for the Yukon 2 years running bone dry hunting the jungles of the wet side...never have I had rain gear actually work stuff is amazing

[CP]

Yep, it was wet.  Didn't find the right elk but I found these:

[pashok23]

Two words, kuiu Yukon

 

Another  for the Yukon 2 years running bone dry hunting the jungles of the wet side...never have I had rain gear actually work stuff is amazing

 

[NorseNW]

Ya'll have no idea how much better this makes me feel!  I powered through the a couple days of it but could not get my stuff dry inside my truck camper so only lasted 4 of the first days.  Pulled camp and came back to dry for a full day before going back for another 3.  The whole time I'm thinking - I should have gone to eastern Oregon or Idaho with my buddies.  Come to find out - that rain went allll the way across.

I thought I was just being whiny - which I am but man if I wanted to hunt in the crap I'd pick up a rifle!

CP - we came across I nice bunch of those on day 4 so at least we had some fresh ones for dinner that night.

[pianoman9701]

Yep, it was wet.  Didn't find the right elk but I found these:

If you cut the mushrooms above the ground and wipe off the remaining debris, there's a lot less cleaning in the kitchen. 

[KevrosWanderin]

What kind of shrooms are those? I have to studied them harder. Found a bunch a spot I was looking for bears in. But I need to get a field guide I guess


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[Tinmaniac]

What kind of shrooms are those? I have to studied them harder. Found a bunch a spot I was looking for bears in. But I need to get a field guide I guess


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Look like white and gold chanterelles to me.Cut above ground and leave the butts in the ground,much cleaner and your patch will come back and multiply.

[CP]

Yep, it was wet.  Didn't find the right elk but I found these:

If you cut the mushrooms above the ground and wipe off the remaining debris, there's a lot less cleaning in the kitchen. 

Thanks,  they were a lot of work.  Next time I'll bring a brush or something to wipe them in the field.

[CP]

Yep, white and gold chanterelles, a few corals and one that I never ID'ed so I tossed it.

[pianoman9701]

Yep, it was wet.  Didn't find the right elk but I found these:

If you cut the mushrooms above the ground and wipe off the remaining debris, there's a lot less cleaning in the kitchen. 

Thanks,  they were a lot of work.  Next time I'll bring a brush or something to wipe them in the field.

An air compressor is what the big boys use. 

[Blacktail135]

Somehow in my work to get things dry i took my insoles our of my boots and hunted three days without them. I kept wondering why my feet were so cold and why my boots felt a half size too big.

One of those things that after you figure it out you wonder how you could be so dumb. Covered a lot of miles like that too


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I did something similar years ago (took insoles out to dry) then proceeded to hike 25 miles one day to go see something. Got blisters under both big toenails and both adjoining toenails. A few months later I was lying on the tundra in Alaska on a caribou hunt picking those 4 toenails off. They kept snagging on my sock liners and bugging me. Foot care is kind of a biggy for me now.

[Tribal Elder]

We had a few spurts of rain in the Colockum and I always pack rain gear in the tent. Depending on weather I may pack a rain jacket on my pack. A couple times I got caught short and ducked under a tree to stay dry. It also helps if you treat your clothes  pre season so that they shed water if you get caught without the rain gear.

A few spurts of rain? LOL, it poured down rain on us Tuesday the 17th and Wednesday night, like torrential downpour. Sprinkled a bit Thursday but managed a cow Thursday evening.

[ctwiggs1]

The minute anything gets through wet weather gear, it just turns into a nice rash-maker.  So you get to choose - warm, squishy and eventually rashy or just wet.

I'll have to try that Yukon out.

[Wetwoodshunter]

Seems like this comes up often. I hunt the westside and have had some days in 40 mph wind and a few inches of rain and been Bone dry in my first light SEAK gear.

The trick is as soon as it startes raining you gotta get the gear on. I have made that mistake a lot. Also in rain gear you need to move slower so you don't sweat it out.

[dreadi]

We had a few spurts of rain in the Colockum and I always pack rain gear in the tent. Depending on weather I may pack a rain jacket on my pack. A couple times I got caught short and ducked under a tree to stay dry. It also helps if you treat your clothes  pre season so that they shed water if you get caught without the rain gear.

A few spurts of rain? LOL, it poured down rain on us Tuesday the 17th and Wednesday night, like torrential downpour. Sprinkled a bit Thursday but managed a cow Thursday evening.

Oh I missed all that. After 10 days I packed up camp on the 16th.  I'm glad you got one. I have to go back for late season....not sure what the weather is going to be like or manageable for myself.

[ballpark]

10/14 days raining in the Lewis unit. Picked a campsite that someone had spread straw all over - wonder what that was for? Oh yeah, it was because the campsite flooded regularly. One saving grace for me was my propane Peet boot dryer and my reconditioned Lowa boots were solid, even at 8 years old.. The Old Cabela's MT50 rain gear just made me sweat like a pig. My partner from AZ was not prepared even though he moved there from here (Washelkhunter). It gold so cold Wednesday, I thought snow was possible. One other great thing: the mice figured out to get in my pop-up the first night. Had one crawl across my face. Lovely.

We should start another thread about mice in the tent.  My son and I had a pop-up and woke up to crunching sound. mouse got into chip bag and got out through the square metal telescoping pole and upper tent section.  About a pencil size opening.  We caught/killed about a dozen that night.