My pics from over the years

[Kingofthemountain83]

My dad's and I first trip to the Pasayten was 2025 High Buck... Beautiful country... We put on about 56 miles at 4 trail heads... Not bad for the old man just turned 73...

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Day 2 was our biggest day hitting Buckskin... 3 Deer, a doe and twin fawn ran right to us on the trail on the way in... Grouse were friendly and abundant around here... You could get within a yard before they would move off... Don't know who the note was for on the flagging tape but maybe somebody does? lol Ran into several hunters and backpackers... Saw some more deer on the way out but couldn't tell if they were shooters in the distance and fading light...

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Camp for high buck... We moved once to hit other trails... It was quite the experience... Saw these deer right next to the trail eating fire weed... I know there's way better feed around... 

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2025 Muzzy deer and elk in Cowichie... There's elk in the some of these picks... They're cell phone pics I don't have a phone scope for the spotter... Got there about half way through muzzy deer...

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Got into an area I usually hit for elk and it didn't disappoint... Rubs everywhere, trails, usual... Saw quite a few elk in here... Jumped a spike at 20 yards on opening day... Cow called, he stopped about 70 yards with a cluster of small trees blocking his chest then the cow down hill of me, 10 yards in the timber barked and the forest exploded in the sounds of hoofs and I can feel the ground rumble... Walked into the middle of a large herd... Never got shot at the spike and only saw glimpses of a bunch of elk... I will be back here next year unless I can get into Nasty Creek...   

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Muzzy deer... Saw a lot of deer this year... Saw these down in the timber from the road while cruising... I hit my bleat and they came right in...

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This is Betty... Betty likes to eat pine cones from your hand and will then lick the salt off you... If you see Betty smile and wave... She also likes cashews... I think little Betty didn't make it... I got several pics of a big cat a few miles from here and ran into Betty a few days later and little Betty was now where to be seen... Betty looks like a benchleg to me... That's the cool part about Cowichie is all types of habitats hold deer cause it has blacktail, benchlegs, and mule deer... Been hunting here since I was 11, I love this area.

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Found two hair ties in two of my spots... I shot an elk from one and a deer from one... Wondering if she has too!    Yet to run into her... Dads trail cam set up is a big tree so had to use a bungee and a stick to tighten... The fungi? Is that chicken of the woods? Only place I found it there...

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 An elk trail scattered with elk bones... A couple pics of Mt. Goats... Yes, they're in there! And the bowl that forever changed my life as a mule deer hunter... 19 years ago I was was down yonder in that basin during modern deer coming up a slope steep enough you could reach out and touch it... I was on a game trail between a rock slide and heavy timber almost to the top I stopped and looked up... A doe was on the trail 10 yards up coming down staring at me... I had my rifle in my right hand... I froze... So was she... Scanned my eye's up to the left behind her... I can see antler sticking out on the right with a huge main frame 4 point with 3 distinct extras... (that would be his left side) Then a big tree... (his face, head, neck is behind this along with a lot of antler main beams) Then I see his other antler one the other side of the tree... 4 long points with a few extras sticking out... I don't have a shot... I shoulder my rifle and try to take a step up... The doe does a 180 runs up around the buck...I drop my head and "run" up that as fast as I can... I just have to clear the trees before they level out in the bowl... They have 200+ yards to go to my 12 up this steep *censored*! I've hunted this route countless times... I clear the trees, click the safety off, and throw my gun up solid with the cross hairs right on his back line as steady as I could waiting for him to lift his head in the last few yards as he crested the rim... He never did... The 243 I had wasn't made for the Texas heart shot I wanted to take... If I'd of had the 7mm Weatherby that day things may have been different... I could see both sides of his rack around his body in the scope... I dove deep after that into trophy mule deer and had an obsession with him... Brought a tape back next year and measured that tree just to be sure of what I saw... The tree was 28" wide... I saw a deer that was probably 38" main frame with extras pushing it well over 40"... I hunted for that deer for 5 years... Not even thinking about shooting another mule deer with the possibility of him being alive... I jumped him twice over two seasons in close cover and saw him from about 1/2 a mile away the 3rd and not a sign of him for two years I finally shot another mule deer out there...       

[MADMAX]

Great pics bud
thanks for posting

[jackelope]

Cool pics. Lots of memories there. Thanks for sharing. 

[Kingofthemountain83]

Thanks guys! got a few more...

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The stand has been there since I was a kid, it use to have a fabric blind around it... It's situated on an elk path... I've never seen signs of anyone using it... The ladder and stand always had sticks I put on it to see if anyone used it and of course others fell...  I've shot two spikes out of it in my younger, lighter, skinnier, more nimble days... Both with a muzzy...

2nd pic is a place I've sat many times over the years and seen a lot of game... I tagged 3 deer and 1 elk from this exact spot...

3rd pic is old wolf poop about a mile from camp... Remember this is Cowichie, muzzy elk 2025, where the WDFW doesn't acknowledge any wolfs or packs... First wolf I seen here I was 12 on Foundation Ridge... Would be a huge pile if it was fresh but it's all dried out then rained on...

Last pic my dad wanted to squish this thing because it woke him up a bit after 2 am by slowly crawling on his face... Man I haven't heard my dad yell and react like that in,    I don't when... But it was so funny... I had to save this things life and convince my dad it was harmless... I mean if it was a spider I would totally agree it needed to die while we were there... He told me how it was going for his eye to do the most damage it could... 

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This memorial has been there 20 something years... No markings... Huge pile of rocks... I remember when we came down there and saw it when it was new... Must've taken quite the team to gather 100's of rocks and arrange pile... I can't image the time it would take one person...

Everything we found in the road while cruising in the sxs... Couldn't believe it actually... How much stuff we found...  I'm wearing the Seahawks beanie now! Pretty sure the stainless steel nylock nut and washer may have caused someone some problems but maybe not... Probably a sxs or quad... And the knife... Had to of been ran over several times... Probably left on the bed or bumper... The broken hook... I've done that before... I ran a 500# one over dangling off the rollback and they are loud when they break...

Radio road... If you hunted up here last year you know where this is... There was a spike taken up here on the opener... I've taken a cow, a spike, and a few deer over the years...

I call this area chainsaw parts... About 3 1/2 miles behind a gate... The reliable 036 Stihl... All the parts I could find... I bet this was a bad day for the logger...    Assuming it occurred in the early 90's from the age of the cut... But man this place was holding the elk...

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Here's Betty a few days later... I got some pics on a cam a few miles away of a big tom and I was screwing around so I hit the bleat... She came out... She looked shook... Never relaxed... Ears swiveling... Head pivoting... No little Betty anywhere... Was a sad sight...

Another favorite spot of mine... I've gotten two deer off that side ridge...

A burn burn older than myself that my dad has stories about from growing up with his dad and brothers...

A fire pit I made 20+ year ago then we started hunting up Nasty Creek and now we had to come back cause the *censored*s put a gate up...