Alaska Caribou

[SC Living Outdoors]

What's your antler/meat/hide plan? @SCliving Outdoors

Bring it home on the airplane in softsided coolers that I’ll take up with me.

 

[SC Living Outdoors]

Ready

 

[brownbear932008]

Good luck! Packing a caribou 2 miles back to camp across tundra was the most exhausting thing I've ever done. We did a float plane trip on north slope, awesome experience, but one-and-done for me, no more tundra in my future. I'd rather bust my ass hiking up mountains for elk.

it will definitely humble you. Much much harder than I anticipated.

 

[SC Living Outdoors]

Making our way north. In coldfoot now. It’s a thriving metropolis. Saw a black wolf on the road.

 

[Don Fischer]

I put 2 packs into a mylar bag add boiling water and ziplock it closed and wait for 10-15 minutes. Maybe I could cook it in its orginal pack(?) but I'd have to put water in 2 packs and there isn't a ziplock on top to hold in the heat while it cooks.

That's a good idea for cooking. I don't generally hunt to far from home but number of years ago I went bird hunting a long way off. For food I packed everything in zip lock bags all cooked at home. Took along a metal 5 gal bucket and to heat the food, boiled it in the bags in water in the bucket. On deployment while in the service we ate C rats. To cook them we used a 55gal drum of boiling water. That where my idea came from. Shoot I even made scrambled eggs and a few egg omelet's to take on tat trip'

 

[crock239]

Making our way north. In coldfoot now. It’s a thriving metropolis. Saw a black wolf on the road.
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Y'all are making good time! Coldfoot food is good...rooms less so.

 

[SC Living Outdoors]

This is the toughest hunt I’ve ever done. Alaska threw everything at me. Some of it was just Alaska being Alaska. Some of it was “bad luck” but it was not enjoyable. I have no desire to ever do this hunt again. I’ll write up everything when I have a chance.

Here’s a teaser pic.

 

[WNC2500]

This is the toughest hunt I’ve ever done. Alaska threw everything at me. Some of it was just Alaska being Alaska. Some of it was “bad luck” but it was not enjoyable. I have no desire to ever do this hunt again. I’ll write up everything when I have a chance.

Here’s a teaser pic.
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Glad you got it done. Looking forward to hearing all about it.

 

[Alpine01]

Glad you got it done. Looking forward to hearing all about it.

Same. I head north in about 3 weeks for a moose & caribou hunt in northern BC.

 

[cgasner1]

This is the toughest hunt I’ve ever done. Alaska threw everything at me. Some of it was just Alaska being Alaska. Some of it was “bad luck” but it was not enjoyable. I have no desire to ever do this hunt again. I’ll write up everything when I have a chance.

Here’s a teaser pic.
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Alaska being Alaska……..sometimes it just feels like the really wild places like to send you a welcome

 

[Salmonchaser]

She’s an evil mistress, Alaska can/will test you. Looking forward to the write up.

 

[Gellar]

Can we change the forum rules to have a maximum amount of time between a teaser and full recap?

Congratulations on the success!

 

[seeth07]

She’s an evil mistress, Alaska can/will test you.

She is indeed evil because after she kicks your butt and sends you home crying with battle wounds all over your body she has the tenacity to lure you back in.

Some of it was “bad luck” but it was not enjoyable. I have no desire to ever do this hunt again.

@SCliving Outdoors is full of it, he will be back.

 

[Trial153]

I am packed and ready, leaving thursday…Don’t have a return flight yet, and our transporter isnt coming for us till…we’re done.

 

[SC Living Outdoors]

She is indeed evil because after she kicks your butt and sends you home crying with battle wounds all over your body she has the tenacity to lure you back in.



@SCliving Outdoors is full of it, he will be back.

I’ll be back to Alaska but I won’t be doing the haul road rifle hunt.

 

[Bluffgruff]

I’ll be back to Alaska but I won’t be doing the haul road rifle hunt.

It takes a couple years to get over it and plan a new trip to do the same insanity. I leave Sunday.

 

[seeth07]

I’ll be back to Alaska but I won’t be doing the haul road rifle hunt.

I said the exact same thing last fall on the boat ride out and back into Kodiak. A few months later in Dec, I found myself putting in the same stupid tag yet again. Maybe I just don't learn but I'm pretty sure it was her evil that made me do it.

 

[Bambistew]

I’ll be back to Alaska but I won’t be doing the haul road rifle hunt.

Congrats on the bou. Once you do something that stupid, its really easy to do it again.

 

[270win88]

I leave tomorrow morning about 1 AM to head to the airport CHS-ATL-SEA-FAI. My buddy and I are meeting up in ATL and heading north. Once we land in Fairbanks we’ll grab our truck and head to get some fuel for our stoves and a couple gas cans. Then it’s up to the haul rd. We have a couple weeks to try to get a couple caribou with the rifle.

I’ve been getting everything together. Final packing this evening. Should be a fun hunt. I’m going to do my best to kill a good bull. I’ll update as much as I can.

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That sounds like one heck of a get away

 

[brownbear932008]

This is the toughest hunt I’ve ever done. Alaska threw everything at me. Some of it was just Alaska being Alaska. Some of it was “bad luck” but it was not enjoyable. I have no desire to ever do this hunt again. I’ll write up everything when I have a chance.

Here’s a teaser pic.

They don't call it the 5 mile death march for nothing. I'd never do it two miles about got us up there.