Be Careful In The Backcountry

[Alchase]

Ouch.
Good luck in November.


Just packed my steel toe Crocks.

My buddy kept telling me as I was packing up my camp "I told you two Crocks were a bad idea". I'm like it's not the Crocks fault..lol

It's not the Crocs' fault. I once bear hunted the high country for an entire weekend in Crocs. Our glassing spot was like 100 yards from our tent. Saw 8 bears that weekend, all of them in my Crocs.

But did you kill any? Killing one in crocs would be good.

You would think it would be fairly easy, all the animals are laughing their butts off at the worlds ugliest plastic shoes!

[theleo]

A mere scratch my boy.

Anytime I'm in the back country and ride around a blind corner with the mules to find lamas in the trail, my life starts flashing before my eyes. I know one lady that had a bee hive result in a punctured lung and helicopter flight out of the Eagle Caps.

Forgive the ignorance but are Llamas something that makes mules freak out? Also, that is some scary stuff about that lady. Things like that make me happy I bought a SPOTX.

Llamas will make a good %95 of all horses and mules freak. The more the unexpected it is, the worst the reaction is. When it happens in a relatively flat spot that a person can bail off their horse if they have to... it's a pretty funny sight to behold as long as you aren't in the middle of it.

Being able to contact the outside world isn't needed %99 of the time, but that %1 is pretty critical. A family friend ran an outfitting business in Idaho for over 30 years and had to call EMS 2 times. Once for a client with a heart issue and once when his femur broke a couple of days after being kicked by a horse. When things go wrong you got to have a plan, and you always have to plan on things going wrong.

[jackelope]

Real men hunt in their Crocks and underwear.

It's just cooler.

[theleo]

Real men hunt in their Crocks and underwear.

It's just cooler.

As soon as Kuiu comes out with a cup holder for their bags that's convenient for Starbucks cups, you yuppies will have it made. 

[jackelope]

Real men hunt in their Crocks and underwear.

It's just cooler.

As soon as Kuiu comes out with a cup holder for their bags that's convenient for Starbucks cups, you yuppies will have it made. 

That one burned deep.

Is this close enough?

I don't run the KUIU stuff.
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[Jason]

Real men hunt in their Crocks and underwear.

It's just cooler.

There is my problem, I was only running 2wd..lol should of had em in 4wd 

[konradcountry]

I shot a bear while wearing crocs and shorts.

Had been tracking him near a river and didn't expect him to pop at the time.

Don't knock the crocs.

[7mmfan]

I wear my wife’s baby blue crocs because I’m to lazy to buy my own. Always good for a few wise  cracks from the peanut gallery. Needless to say they’re only the 2 wheel drive model.

[LDennis24]

What a croc.... I had a cut that looked just like this once. It was terrible, I was hiking in the spring out near Cheney and if anyone knows the area well enough it has tons of run-off and green areas in the basalt fill with water for weeks. Well I had to cross a flooded pasture with cow pies floating in it and everything so I take off my boots socks and pants and start wading across when suddenly some tall canary grass runs between my toes and slices me wide open! It instantly burned and hurt like hell. I continued across and got out of the water to find the grass still embedded in the cut and I couldn't believe how bad that cut was after seeing it. I instantly panicked thinking it would get infected from all that cow manure but miraculously it healed up just fine with a few stitches and now my toes aren't so webbed on that foot. It's a terrible place to get a cut, between your toes. Eeeek!

[MADMAX]

Eww broke pelvis can kill you, major arteries can be severed

Thats a life flight, glad you made it

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Should have had crocs on

[Alchase]

Above Winthrop back in the early 90s,  we had a big camp of RVs, Trailer, and Tents, and we use to stay at the Meadow spot. Big turn-around at the end of the Winter feed meadow.
All the guys (I think decided to hit the Bear Creek Trail and head on up to the last road (D-road) for the day. It is a good 3-4 mile to where were would head up the fingers and work the ridge back towards camp.
Back in camp about 8:30 am, one of the wives looked out their RV window and spotted a nice buck in the buck brush about 30 yards out. She threw her blaze orange vest on top of her nightgown, stepped out of the RV and dropped the buck. She got dressed, and asked two hunters if they would help drag it back to the meat pole.
She was the only one to get a buck that day. Pretty humbling for all of us that hiked a ton of miles and got skunked, 

[jstone]

That’s a cool story

[jackelope]

I wear my wife’s baby blue crocs because I’m to lazy to buy my own. Always good for a few wise  cracks from the peanut gallery. Needless to say they’re only the 2 wheel drive model.

They don’t even have the straps???
That’s like buying a 2wd Jeep. What the heck.

[LDennis24]

I wear my wife’s baby blue crocs because I’m to lazy to buy my own. Always good for a few wise  cracks from the peanut gallery. Needless to say they’re only the 2 wheel drive model.

They don’t even have the straps???
That’s like buying a 2wd Jeep. What the heck.

Do they make 2wd jeeps? For that matter, why do they even make 2wd pickups? What a waste of money.

[2MANY]

Especially since they are actually 1 wheel drive.