Post by: sixty4nhalf on November 03, 2011, 08:40:03 PM
Friday the 28th started of GREAT, left work about 8am. Got home and finished loading the truck, topping off with fuel, propane, quick stop at Wal-mart to get the rest of the food for my 9 days in the woods(planning for the worst) hooking up the camp trailer, and out on the road, finally at 1. Had to run down to Cabela's for 1 item, should be in and out in 10-15 mins MAX! Speed limit through Tacoma was a blazing 10MPH. Once at Cabela's I got my 1 item that I was wanting, remembered 1 item that I was needing and then to the register, that whole ordeal took me 1 hour, thank's to a cash register that didn't want to cooperate, I was back on the road back in more traffic @ 20MPH this time...... what seamed like forever because it was, I was finally heading up FSR19 to 1902, which is were I wanted to be 5 hours earlier. I set up the trailer, fired up the generator, turned on the heat and NOTHING, no heat at all, checked the fuses all were good. Oh well I'll figure it out in the AM.
Day 1: No heat still, got the coffee pot going time to warm up a bit, got dressed and I was out the door and in the woods. Shots were ringing all around me.
Day 2: Still no heat same as day 1 except that night (Sun) generator decided to stop working. Got a glimps of a sheeps rear quarter trotting along.
Day 3: Still no heat, No coffee, no power. Ended up driving to 2 stores near by and resorted in some Instant Coffee at $5.47 for a miniature serving.
Day 4 : Still no heat or power, but I have Coffee(ish). by this time the temps are dropping....
Day 5: didn't want to get up cause it was so cold, a brisk 29 in the camper.... water pipes frozen, so there goes the coffee, ah wait I have ice, and ice is made from water, so I boiled down a bag of ice into water to make some coffee. Finally headed out, ran across a cow and 2 calves.
Day 6: Woke up to about 2 inches of fresh powder, got some more ice to boil into coffee, on my way out camps were getting packed all over the place. Came back around lunch time and the roads were icy. Figured it was time to head out myself, enough was enough.
So the spikes have won another round this year......
Post by: robodad on November 03, 2011, 09:59:54 PM
Post by: sixty4nhalf on November 04, 2011, 06:30:08 AM
Post by: Glockster on November 04, 2011, 12:23:50 PM
One time I had a cow tag for the Nile. Doesn't open for permit cows until Wed. So I enjoy a nice opening weekend in the Bethel unit with my buddies; cloud nine KNOWING i'll get my cow in a few days. Well, buddies leave Sunday aftnoon, it snows, then gets reaaaaallllly cold. I'm sleeping in the back of my truck every night. Nothing but Mexican, cowboy music or religeous freaks to listen to on the radio. I've gone through my cd case twice by then . By day 5 ; no cow, temp is down to single didgits at night, all my beer freezes and explodes, my water is almost all frozen, and the last night, my propane stove decides to detonate. Good times.
Post by: Fl0und3rz on November 04, 2011, 01:40:00 PM
That will ruin a hunt pretty quickly. Later that week I hear that road hunters shot a spike from a vehicle (heard it 3rd hand) just about 300 yards from our camp.
Post by: Encore 280 on November 04, 2011, 01:54:41 PM
If your buddy woulda came along then ya coulda shared the sleeping bag and cuddled up to stay warm!!! :chuckle: At least ya had some luck anyway. Too bad it wasn't good. Hopefully it's better next time.
Post by: sixty4nhalf on November 04, 2011, 08:23:01 PM
Man, been there done that! I gets really lonely and cold and by day 4 you start asking yourself 'why do i do this to myself?' LOL
temp is down to single didgits at night, all my beer freezes and explodes, my water is almost all frozen, and the last night, my propane stove decides to detonate. Good times.
Oh Hell no beer.... I think that was my only saving grace from going postal.... and yes I was saying that, 10 times a day I would say that I was done and heading home, but then after thawing in the afternoon sun I felt revived (until that darn sun set again). I did have to plug in the camp trailer in every night and run my rig to keep my batteries semi-charged, and with Diesel running at $4.59/gal that was an expensive charging system. But hey it was all good.
Post by: sixty4nhalf on November 16, 2011, 07:40:36 PM