What is you "Happy Place"?

[44hunter45]

 

[WildWill]

 

[Nick87]

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Yup

 

[geetar]

Sometimes it's a cup of black coffee and the Bible just before daylight. Sometimes it's sitting alone late at night. Mostly it's wherever my mind can be clear and my thoughts aren't racing at the speed of life.

 

[Bullshot]

Part A: In my memories mostly, like in their nursery when I was able to rock my infant daughters to sleep 14 and 16 years ago.

Lots of places out west I love but none I get back to often enough, some if ever, to lay claim to as my official happy place - yet. So, Part B: In my daydreams.

 

[Ought Six]

Ever driven down a dirt road, window down, in the evening as mixtures of warm air and cold air start to hit your arm, cold road soda in the cup holder, bird dog in the passenger seat, deer and elk making their way into the agricultural bottoms surrounded by beautiful public lands, not another person for miles because it is late summer and the fall migration of NR and western MTers hasn’t begun yet, the sun sets with the full range of the rainbow colored skies you can only get in eastern MT due to the extreme light angle from the lack of mountains? Life’s good.

 

[Derek44]

@gouch wins!!!!! Hands down!!! Any minute with my granddaughter is my happy place

 

[Boarmaster]

Mine is my hunt shack in AL. I am happy generally anywhere but most happy and excited being in camp with my hunting buddies.

I also really enjoy the couple weeks I spend at my cousins club house in Ohio every year.

I am happiest around my own kind and the whole deer camp experience.

I’m 61 and been deer hunting since I was in my mid 20s. I’m just as excited on opening day every year as I was the first opening day. And maybe I appreciate it more each year.

 

[JShane]

this swamp.

I can see some places in Virginia making the list in the not to distant future.

The oyster bars in the flats in the gulf out of crystal river

 

[Oak]

Cool thread. If you are like me and find it difficult to answer the question, I’m providing a gift article link (in case you don’t subscribe). No comments please, but I hope it resonates with some of you.

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[BuzzH]

I'd have to say any wall tent camp while hunting deer, elk, pronghorn, etc. just the simplicity of living out in the woods for a couple week stretches. Takes me about 2-3 days and everything just slows down to a great pace of life.

Another place I really feel like I'm totally relaxed is fishing the salt in Alaska with a handful of my friends. Just feel at home out there jigging for halibut, ling cod, salmon, etc.

 

[tormenter]

One of my happy places is sitting in this piping hot wall tent with a cold beer and family and friends - all the while it is snowing like hell outside. Life can only be better if there are a couple of nice racks resting on the firewood supply outside!

 

[ismith]

We are not so different after all… (note contents of my left pants pocket).
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Not falling for that shit again, perv.

 

[ismith]

Anywhere in the mountains of Montana. mtmuley

Even Butte?

 

[Forkyfinder]

Backpacking. Either with the wife, dog, or both.

Its as close as i can get her to hunting - but being immersed in the outdoors with someone you love means a lot.

 

[Dsnow9]

My happy place is next to a fire! Doesn’t matter where, and my kids and wife have taken to feel the same way which is awesome! My 7 and 4 year old daughters ask almost daily if we can have a fire? The new rule is if they build the fire an I can light it goes up on the first shot we can have a fire. Needless to say they have gotten very good at making fires.

Here is the remnants of tonight’s fires and then a few from the last couple weeks.

 

[Forkyfinder]

My happy place is next to a fire! Doesn’t matter where, and my kids and wife have taken to feel the same way which is awesome! My 7 and 4 year old daughters ask almost daily if we can have a fire? The new rule is if they build the fire an I can light it goes up on the first shot we can have a fire. Needless to say they have gotten very good at making fires.

Here is the remnants of tonight’s fires and then a few from the last couple weeks.

Girl dad gang! Thats cool.

 

[Wild Bill]

No particular place stuck a chord with me initially, but this evening the boys both went down easy and early so me and the dog hit the boat in the garage. We stayed up too late (10:30), polished off some cold ones, and tied a pile of slow death snells for this wknd. Waylon, Prine, and John Denver played on the phone.
Really hit the spot.

 

[Dsnow9]

Girl dad gang! Thats cool.

Yep, I have third now as well. She is six weeks old. I’m now way out numbered!

 

[crock239]

"There are corners of this green footstool which men look upon with more than mere gratefulness -- places where they feel deeply at home. Let them all choose their own inviolate acres. Along the banks of the raging Rogue, or in the pine-clad hills of Alabama. All of the close-to-earth hunting and fishing men know their chosen places. " - Gordon MacQuarrie, We Shall Gather By The Icehouse


Picked up a book tonight and that's the first sentence I read...seemed appropriate.