Wilderness Area montage

[rmyoung1]

Escudilla Wilderness, AZ, 2020

 

[JLS]

Escudilla Wilderness, AZ, 2020
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Awesome photo

 

[rmyoung1]

Awesome photo

Thanks @JLS . This is a GREAT thread.

 

[AlaskaHunter]

Wild and big country, but not a designated wilderness area.
North slope of Brooks Range.

 

[JLS]

Wild and big country, but not a designated wilderness area.
North slope of Brooks Range.
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Wow!

 

[MTLabrador]

Thinking back on the great times I’ve had in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness.

 

[LopeHunter]

Thinking back on the great times I’ve had in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness.

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Smart having your dog with you and the sidearm handy. I woke up solo with bear spray and my rifle to fresh grizzly scat too close to my tent for comfort one pre-dawn morning in that wilderness. I spent that day spending a bit more time looking over my shoulder and moving a bit slower through stands of trees and then as was hiking in the dark back to my tent and then as ate on the hillside away from the tent. Sometimes the bear you do not see is the scariest.

 

[MTLabrador]

May above the Boulder River, Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness.

 

[MTLabrador]

Lightning Lake, Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness.

 

[LuketheDog]

Flat Tops Wilderness, Colorado

 

[Gerald Martin]

Lee Metcalf Wilderness

 

[AlaskaHunter]

Caribou country

 

[BAKPAKR]

Thinking back on the great times I’ve had in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness.

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Cool photos but that was one ugly bull.

 

[MTLabrador]

Cool photos but that was one ugly bull.

He was legal and I was in college, I wasn’t getting too greedy.

 

[AlaskaHunter]

Sheep Country, Alaska Range

 

[antlerradar]

great picture, But those ugly red and black "rocks" in the front.

 

[Salmonchaser]

Hells Canyon; this year

 

[Salmonchaser]

Sheep Country, Alaska Range
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Been a long time since Ive been up that way. It appears I’ve been too locked into my life down on the Penninsula.

 

[Salmonchaser]

Caribou country
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as a kid, just before school started, dad would fire up the Beaver and we would head to the Brooks range. We‘re talking early sixties. Some place different each time but he was good at making sure we saw all of Alaska. It is so much more than Anchorage the Kenai peninsula and Fairbanks.
Alaska’s National Parks are great and while I routinely bitch about having to deal with their regulations, they do a damn good job.
For those looking here, thinking about visiting, hunting or fishing do yourself a favor. Go to the Brooks, see Gates of the Arctic or ANWR. There certainly is no other place like it.
This is a great pic

 

[AlaskaHunter]

great picture, But those ugly red and black "rocks" in the front.

Tough to get mountain boots that fit my narrow and long feet (13B).
Plus they match the color of my backpack...need to be fashionable in the backcountry!