My brother hadn't got a bear in 34 years. We tried to get him one last year in Idaho and didn't have any luck. Tried again this year and had a great trip. So happy that he got one.
I feel for you and your Dad. I can see the writing on the wall and know that this hunt will change dramatically in the not so distant future. When it came time to submit applications this year my 82 year old buddy said he wasn't going to put in. After much discussion, I finally talked him...
We usually make 2 meat trips out during the week. So one trip in with camp, two meat trips in and out during the week and one final trip out at the end of the hunt. We don't hunt off of the horses anymore and just use them to retrieve elk once we have them down.
I know we will definitely miss the space of the wall tent. I would think the 16p tipi would do pretty good for us.
We can get 4 hours of slow burn on the stoves we're using now. But with 4 guys, there is usually one or two pee trips during the night where someone can stoke the stove.
Let me see if I have this straight. You joined in 2018 and it took you 4 years to post your first time. Then until yesterday you hadn't posted anything since April of 2023. When you say ALL my threads, do you mean the TWO threads total you have started? Both of which are bitching about...
I actually found a hole like that one year in a different area. Looked like the stuff had been there for years and was either rotting or rusty. Not sure what happened to the original owners. I couldn't see that there was anything salvageable so I packed what I could of the nonbiodegradable...
I have two Kodiak tents and they are my favorite tents for sure. I use them for camping at the trailhead or by the truck. If they were lighter and easier to pack on the horses, they would work great.
8 hours to the trailhead unfortunately. My 78 yr old buddy with the horses is 2 hours from the trailhead. When they were younger he and the 82 yr old would go in the week before and get camp all set up. Too hard for them to do that now.
Our issue is the stock animals belong to the 78 yr old and he is slowing down as his herd ages. So far we have not been able to convince him to get more stock. To be fair, he is over 6 hours away from the rest of us so the real work of having animals all year falls directly on him.
Also, he...