Glacier Peak Wilderness High Buck

[400out]

Those granola's stole my waiders I used to get across the river. I had them hid good too.  I don't know why some one would steal them. .  They were watching me when I took them off.  I hid them good in the brush under a root ball. F#cker's

That would be enought to make a man kill 

[bornforhorns]

Nothing stays sacred, I was nineteen (22 years ago) when I started hunting those areas...I can tell you this...I SAW NOBODY!!!  me and my partner had some success...it would be interesting to me to know how you guys found out about some of the mentioned spots.  We shared some success through an article in Eastmans Journal...although no specific names were mentioned...one picture might of done our spot in.  I was hoping to go back there someday to some of the haunted spots that I'm pretty sure no human boots had ever touched.  Every year after that article there were more hunters.  Shortly after Washington fishing and hunting news ran one of there articles where they highlight specific trails and draws...based on the fact I never saw anybody up there...I always wondered if they saw our article and based their predictions on it? 

Kind of miss the days of thumbing through maps, small little stories talking to other hunters in the field trying to find secret new spots...now you look on here and a guy post a picture and location.  Don't get me wrong...it's fun to look and share but I also use to love hearing people say "there's no deer in this state", when I believe it was 15 or 16 years straight that I saw a 180" deer during a shortened general rifle season or early hunt...not easy to get to but still I knew they were there.  That's why I laugh every time I see a guy on here bitching about "no deer".  LOL!

[JimmyHoffa]

...it would be interesting to me to know how you guys found out about some of the mentioned spots. 

Pretty much like you mentioned.  There are online magazines that give out spots and predictions and incorporate previous years harvest data.  One e-zine had an article all about the high hunt....what kind of terrain to look for, how to get to the trailhead, where to hike in and set up camp, and finally which ridgelines/peaks/treelines to watch.  Some have little digital maps on the e-zine site, but also suggest better maps and give GPS coordinates.  Same thing can be found for fishing, as I've found maps of rivers that look to have been made by guides, listing each hole with corresponding depth, bottom contour, rock size on the bottom, best traditional colors/plugs/sizes/etc for different water conditions....  It's only a secret if only one person really knows about it.

[teanawayslayer]

There are a few people out there that get lucky and want to share there hunt with the world.  That's fine.  But why go out and give your spot away?  I guess getting your name in a paper or in a magazine is more important.  Then they wonder why there are a million people out there in there supposed spot. IDIOT's

[BrushChimp]

There are a few people out there that get lucky and want to share there hunt with the world.  That's fine.  But why go out and give your spot away?  I guess getting your name in a paper or in a magazine is more important.  Then they wonder why there are a million people out there in there supposed spot. IDIOT's

Didn't you just do exactly that in your first post on this topic? Hmmm

[BrushChimp]

I don't know what some of you are talking about.  We went up little giant and it was like a ghost town. 

I guessing it won't be like that next year 

I hear ya.

[teanawayslayer]

Didn't say I hunted little giant.  But I could see it. I won't give my spot up.  You kidding me

[teanawayslayer]

There are a few people out there that get lucky and want to share there hunt with the world.  That's fine.  But why go out and give your spot away?  I guess getting your name in a paper or in a magazine is more important.  Then they wonder why there are a million people out there in there supposed spot. IDIOT's

Didn't you just do exactly that in your first post on this topic? Hmmm

  Parked at the trail head doesn't mean I hunted it. 

[Bobm]

"We shared some success through an article in Eastmans Journal...although no specific names were mentioned...one picture might of done our spot in."


MORE THAN YOU WILL EVER KNOW.

[Skyvalhunter]

There is a fair amount of people hunting Little Giant, Boulder Pass, and even in the Napeequa itself. Even then its a chore getting one out of there as I have hiked alot in there aand no piece of cake by any means!!

[Ridgerunner]

Any publicity whether in a magazine or on the internet can/will lead to undiscovered spots becoming known, if the story was not in the magazine, then it was only a matter of time before a picture or two online would have had the same effect, I remember reading about how crowded the Ruby's were getting in NV for muleys in August, well I can tell you if you video a hunt up there and run some stories in magazines there is going to be more competition, the only way to keep areas secret is to not share your success or photos with other people.

[Skyvalhunter]

Nothing wrong with sharing sucess or photos just have to keep mum on the location

[GEARHEAD]

thats no bs about posting pictures, i will say i'm guilty of exploiting this, using googe earth to fly to the spot gps it and place the coordinates in my gps, i did this once and it worked. kinda scary, twas a fishing hole however.

[bornforhorns]

BobM,

Care to translate on your remark below? 

For the record...I did not write or send in the article but I was as happy as my hunting partner to see it in a magazine...call it naive Teanawayslayer, but I can tell you this, it wasn't out of ignorance as much as it was out of our competitiveness/feeling of accomplishment to find big bucks in hard to get to places...albeit in Washington.  I would like to thank that in a 13 year period...nobody hiked more miles or saw more (big) game than us.  The article wasn't published until 4 years after we started going in, routinely we would see maybe one other hunter that would say, "it's too hard to get around up there".  Just read the arcticle...I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to place one picture in particular for some. You know how friends go and hunt with other friends and their friends now find new friends, and on and on and on...I think that was the biggest contributor, but if I had it to do all over again I would probably do it the same for the sheer fact when hunting in that country it is not wise to hunt alone...I later realized my safety and commitment to my family was a greater risk than losing the privacy of my hunting spot.  Besides, I'll find another one someday...the same old fashioned way I found the ones you are all talking about, I have two boys that are getting close to those types of trips.

I believe Ridgerunners relationship with us began off that article although I'm not 100% sure.  To this day I don't believe I've ever given details to him and I've known him personally for about 12 or 13 years.

You can't see emotions in a post but I will just say that when some others had gone out of their way to find our spot way back when...I was fighting mad, nowadays I write this with very little anymosity.  I just never understood why some guys found joy in finding where our cars were parked or where the background in our picture was and felt like they had truly accomplished hunting...hunting what?  Anybody can drive enough roads and find you.  Out of respect, I would not do that to somebody I knew and it would have to be pure coincidence if I happened to hunt in the same spot.  I always found more joy in reading the map, discovering where they wintered, where they came from and where they went back to...of course I liked to ask guys questions that were on the right track but I would be embarassed to show up where someone had shared what was a cherished spot...my answer to that is this State is big enough for all of us.  Like I said I'm just curious if any of you might know what article I'm talking about and if that was a factor in some of you hunting the area. Thank you but I don't need any lessons about giving spots up, their isn't a guy on here that hasn't spent enough money to buy a new pickup truck on magazines, videos, etc. because you like reading the articles.

"We shared some success through an article in Eastmans Journal...although no specific names were mentioned...one picture might of done our spot in."


MORE THAN YOU WILL EVER KNOW.

[Salmo]

I once had a hunting partner whom decided he needed to thump his chest and show pics of his kills which included basins, ridges, lake, etc...    Notice how I said "once had" a hunting partner.. 

That's right he no longer is a "partner" or friend of mine.  We spent years to master an area that was remote.   Internet predators are thriving and the lowlifes they are can't wait to find a spot and somehow think they did all the leg work.

If your stupid enough to show the masses your mountain muley hideouts,  then you deserve any and all scum that show up and or harass you.

Life's to short to have an idiot chest thumping wantabe partner.

Guys like that are not welcome in my camp... 

After my experience, I decided to keep it in my family.