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Big Game Hunting => Backcountry Hunting => Topic started by: SilkOnTheDrySide on September 12, 2013, 04:08:17 PM

Title: Silk and FTFs High Hunt Adventure!
Post by: SilkOnTheDrySide on September 12, 2013, 04:08:17 PM: Just met up with Scott and we are off for nine days! No service so you will have to wait until next weekend for all the juicy details!
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Post by: Wea300mag on September 12, 2013, 06:33:24 PM: Give em hell guys!
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Post by: Ridgerunner on September 12, 2013, 06:59:51 PM: Looking forward to the report!
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Post by: bowhunterforever on September 12, 2013, 07:21:50 PM: Good luck
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Post by: Bean Counter on September 12, 2013, 07:23:01 PM: Shoot a big coyote or two!
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Post by: savagehunter on September 12, 2013, 09:01:01 PM: get some
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Post by: robertsjd on September 14, 2013, 10:11:29 AM: go get em guys good luck
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Post by: dreamingbig on September 14, 2013, 11:35:03 AM: Good luck guys!
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Post by: Hunter mike on September 16, 2013, 11:26:58 PM: What does your food list look like for 9 days? I'm at 6lbs for 4-5 days. Had trouble getting enough calories this time so I overpacked a bit. Going to bring some Olive Oil for extra calories.
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Post by: SilkOnTheDrySide on September 17, 2013, 05:31:06 PM: Just got out. We've been fogged in since Sunday... Scott passed on a great bear Friday....regretting it now. Deer skunked us.
We'll get some pictures up soon of the massive fog waves that kept rolling in.
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on September 17, 2013, 07:51:32 PM: Well at least you made it out in one piece.
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Post by: fillthefreezer on September 18, 2013, 10:37:39 AM: was a great trip, quite the adventure. back to the drawing board as id expected to come home with tag punched
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Post by: jackelope on September 18, 2013, 10:38:52 AM: Did the fog run you guys out?
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Post by: SilkOnTheDrySide on September 18, 2013, 10:41:04 AM: Quote from: jackelope on September 18, 2013, 10:38:52 AM
Did the fog run you guys out?

Yup. 2.5 days of it, our partner came in and said the forecast was looking the same through Friday (with snow expected at our elevation).
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Post by: savagehunter on September 18, 2013, 10:46:53 AM: Yeah we were right under the fog and it looked pretty bad above 6000 feet hard enough to see dee when its clear let alone add fog or rain to the mix
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Post by: SWHUNTER on September 20, 2013, 07:48:24 PM: Quote from: Skyvalhunter on September 17, 2013, 07:51:32 PM
Well at least you made it out in one piece.

No kidding. That was the worst lightning storm I have ever rode out in the high country. I couldn't count to 5 between lightning strikes.
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Post by: JM on September 20, 2013, 08:29:40 PM: I've got video and pictures of the storm at 7000 ft but it's too large to put on this site
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Post by: SilkOnTheDrySide on September 20, 2013, 09:07:40 PM: The fireball helped sleep :) Thank god we stashed it during scouting...
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Post by: JM on September 20, 2013, 10:57:43 PM: Fireball?? we packed in 2 fifths of R&R for the trip and finished them off that night 40 ft away from the tents under a tarp that didn't have any metal in it!
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on September 22, 2013, 07:07:23 AM: Quote from: JM on September 20, 2013, 08:29:40 PM
I've got video and pictures of the storm at 7000 ft but it's too large to put on this site
Nothing a little quick resizing in paint won't cure for those pictures
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Post by: hillbillyhunting on September 22, 2013, 09:06:31 AM: We headed away from our tents and down the ridge for that storm too. We put on our rain gear and brought our tarp down hill and hunkered down under a tree and the tarp. That made for a long night. No booze for me... couldn't justify the weight. Road out the storm though... after heat, lightning, fog, fog, fog, snow, sleet, rain, it turned nice and we were able to glass again.
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Post by: SilkOnTheDrySide on September 22, 2013, 10:44:44 AM: Quote from: hillbillyhunting on September 22, 2013, 09:06:31 AM
We headed away from our tents and down the ridge for that storm too. We put on our rain gear and brought our tarp down hill and hunkered down under a tree and the tarp. That made for a long night. No booze for me... couldn't justify the weight. Road out the storm though... after heat, lightning, fog, fog, fog, snow, sleet, rain, it turned nice and we were able to glass again.

Duh...that's why you stash it on scouting trips ;)
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Post by: xXLojackXx on September 23, 2013, 09:43:00 PM: I thought about the fact that I was surrounded by titanium poles during that lightning storm while atop a mountain. My dad and I had 3 trees fall within 100 yards of our tents from the lightning. Needless to say there wasn't much sleep that night.