Methow. Late. (In the old days)

[boneaddict]

After a storm like this.  If you were in the right place about an hour before this snow stopped it was unreal.  If you were out right after it stopped you’d see thousands of tracks with about a half inch of snow in them.   

Hearing reports of a foot of fresh in Carlton. 


Oh to have a late tag right now.   If you aren’t freezing under a tree right now in a runway, you are in the wrong place.   

[Claymore15]

True story right there.

[Sakko300wsm]

Doesn’t look like it’s going to stop till morning - saw a bunch of deer today , mostly all bedded. Tomorrow should be a different story- I saw about 12” today and still snowing

[boneaddict]

This oughta rough up the burn scars a little.   That’s a lot of wet

[Smokepole]

You're bringing back memories, Bone.  Killed some nice bucks after storms like this.  My favorite time is the sunrise at the tail end of the storm.  Lot of good memories.

[boneaddict]

As a kid, you know when seeing a pile of deer turds got you excited and you had to pick on up and  squeeze them to see if they were fresh or not.  You come across this ridge and there would be thousands of tracks, all headed in the same direction.   I dont recall ever catching up with those.   I was in the migration a couple times.  It was basically indescribable.   

[kirkl]

My cousin has a foot at his place.

[Sakko300wsm]

Looking forward to seeing a bunch moving tomorrow

[boneaddict]

Might have to go old school and get a saddlehorse.   

[Smokepole]

Then you get back to camp to announce your success, only to find your partners all having beers with bloody forearms and laughing. The meat pole is about to break.  No room left for mine.  "Don't shoot any more, boys.  We're all tagged out!"

[boneaddict]

Speaking of the color red,   none of that orange stuff.


oh and road hunting was taking a trip by Beaver Creek campground or Little Bellingham to check out those meatpoles.  That was half the fun.  A whole lotta handshakes, and whoppers told
One thing about working at the gas station every year.   Every car that pulled in, youd hop up to see what was tied on the hood. LOL

[Sakko300wsm]

Might have to go old school and get a saddlehorse.

I’ll be hiking in again , but a horse wouldn’t be a bad idea haha

[slavenoid]

Is a "runway" migratory mule deer terminology?

[glocksWetrust]

I have a unfilled modern rifle tag that isn’t filled out yet if you want to take me for a late hunt here soon, sadly I only have a car lol

After a storm like this.  If you were in the right place about an hour before this snow stopped it was unreal.  If you were out right after it stopped you’d see thousands of tracks with about a half inch of snow in them.   

Hearing reports of a foot of fresh in Carlton. 


Oh to have a late tag right now.   If you aren’t freezing under a tree right now in a runway, you are in the wrong place.

[boneaddict]

Is a "runway" migratory mule deer terminology?

Yes I suppose.   There are particular funnels or routes where the migration “used to” travel down.  A particular ridge, around a particular rock formation, through a canyon, etc. 

A particular weather event would trigger this.  Depending on the weather even, you might get all doe, or every animal there.