Pics of your backcountry camp

[X-Force]

☝🏻☝🏻👌 I love the goat rocks!

Thanks for the compliments guys
A pic from that camp

 

Looks like heaven.

[WAnoob]

Subscribed

[throttlejocky20]

adding

[mburrows]

Last year and our llama buddies Jasper and Gunsmoke.

[Cab]

Couple of my camping spots this year.

[James Kyle]

High Hunt WA 2017. Little too windy up top moving camp next year

[Cab]

High Hunt WA 2017. Little too windy up top moving camp next year

Thats one thing about hunting, it's the in field experience in areas that makes a difference. simple things like it being windy in an area, certain streams that dry up in late summer and how your scent in an area is what makes it so much fun.

[branches]

Cab. You have nailed it. You are in the ball park. very nice area.

[AlwaysPackn]

Scouting earlier this year.

[Okanagan]

[jwfaber1]

Do most of you set up a camp and leave it throughout your trip while hiking out from it each day to hunt? Or do you prefer to take your camp with you each day? I'll be doing my first back country elk hunt and I've been weighing out the pros and cons of each strategy.

[banishd]

For elk you need to be able to move if you need to find elk or stay on the elk. Sometimes it works out where you can hunt out of camp but having the flexibility to spike out from base camp or keep your camp on your back while hunting can be invaluable at times. Just be flexible and have a light enough sleep system you can pick up and move.

[Cab]

Do most of you set up a camp and leave it throughout your trip while hiking out from it each day to hunt? Or do you prefer to take your camp with you each day? I'll be doing my first back country elk hunt and I've been weighing out the pros and cons of each strategy.

This was a question on the Gritty Bowman under the biggest mistakes episode. They had story after story of leaving a pack to go after an elk then not being able to find it. Dropping sleeping bags and weight to chase bulls to then be stuck with nothing to sleep in that night. The big lesson they had was to 1. mark the location if you put your pack down to chase animals. 2. don't drop it unless you are really going in for the kill 3. if you set up a camp to hunt out of for elk season you may find yourself packing everything up anyways mid day to move which means you have to go ALL THE WAY BACK to camp pack then go all the way back out to the new location. If this wasn't a backcountry style hunt I would say you 100% can just set up but if you don't know the area well and want the option/flexibility I say carry it with you. my

[Shawn Ryan]

Do most of you set up a camp and leave it throughout your trip while hiking out from it each day to hunt? Or do you prefer to take your camp with you each day? I'll be doing my first back country elk hunt and I've been weighing out the pros and cons of each strategy.

Both.  Depends on the hunt, my familiarity with the area, and then factor what Cab and banishd said.  On a typical 10-day hunt in the area I usually hunt, I know there are elk in each basin on any given day.  So I place a camp in a basin that I use most of the time--somewhat centrally located in the areas I will hunt.  Then, I'll pick days to bivy out based on what I'm seeing.  I also hike back to camp in the dark most evenings, whether that is 20 minutes because the hunting is close to camp or an hour or more because the hunting was in another basin.

[buglebrush]

Do most of you set up a camp and leave it throughout your trip while hiking out from it each day to hunt? Or do you prefer to take your camp with you each day? I'll be doing my first back country elk hunt and I've been weighing out the pros and cons of each strategy.

Carry it with you.  I'm so done with all the hiking in and out for hours with headlamps.  Keeps me fresher and in the elk.