Alright guys, we're in here doing the overnight
scouting trip in winter conditions, just looking for elk and maybe stumble on a
shed, but I'm not sure. Mainly just gonna see what happens to the elk when a storm
moves in, if they come into this area and then that way I can hunt it later, in the
late season that possibly. Alright, let's go see what we can find,
as you can see what I'm walking on here is a nice little game trail that the elk
just used time and time again. I made a little path now if there was something
fresh that walk through here within the last 30 minutes or so, I'd be able to see
it, so we're going to continue on and I'm gonna try not to talk to you loud, so
they can hear me, but I also want to make sure that you guys can hear me, so find a
balance. I don't know if you can see, but this elk trail let me right into this
beaver pond, so I'm gonna go back to the where this beaver pond feeds out and see
if I can find a better crossing, alright let's go.
We're at the head with this beaver pond, you can easily cross. Can see over here between these two
trees, following this elk trail, it's amazing that a bull with the huge rack of
horns can squeeze in between two trees like that.
Alright, got the Hexpeak set up here, the weather is currently breaking a
little bit, but then when I checked the report, it's supposed to really hammer
for a few hours until about midnight of snow, so we'll see if that holds true, let
me take you inside here, so I've got the teepee staked out and reinforced with
rocks here ,all the way around, got some gear, food strung out waiting for
the Bears to come, anyway got tyvek, EVA foam, this is insulated
oversized sleeping pad and I got a zero Degree bag inside the trash compactor,
backpack and all that good stuff and then you can see, I got plenty of room
for 1-person in here, that's just setting up with the trekking pole, all
the way to the top and little snowflakes
on the fabric. Looks like it's gonna start snowing
again. You only need six points, because the hexagon, these mid tieout points are
only for really high winds to secure it down, so you don't need over crank on
this, because this is what it does the fabric, gets it all bunched and then you
lose sleeping space inside, will see if the weather turns. Alright, hopefully
starts snowing again hard soon and I'll keep my eyes out for animals as well, you
never know what's gonna jump out of the forest. Well, it's just past sunset here,
supposed to snow until midnight, got to scout some new area, didn't see
any super fresh tracks, but it was really nice to walk in the fresh falling snow,
very peaceful. I'm just gonna lounge around here my tent and see what happens
with the weather, go to bed, got to wake up bright and early because
I gotta go to work. I can't just come out here and have fun all the time,
I actually have responsibilities, whoo. have a good night all right good morning
it's just after dawn here, I'm about to climb out of the tent, it appears that
there was a dusting of snow last night, and then the clouds cleared and then you
could see the stars, and the temperature dropped,so I roughly say it was around
20 last night Fahrenheit, it's not too bad, but I'll show you the snow and ice
that's on the tent actually insulated a tent a little bit, so it wasn't bad at
all in here, I was pretty cozy. You can see the Sun is coming up here, walk
around camp wandering around seeing if there's any tracks in the area from last
night that passed through my tent and now it's time to fire up some coffee,
because it's cold, here on the west coast when it gets cold, very damp, so you
can fill it right your bones, so I'm wearing about three layers of fleece
under this hard shell, and I'm still wishing that I brought my down jacket,
as you see here last night it's snowed a little bit and then it froze as the
clouds broke, and all the moisture and snow, just formed a block of ice on the
tent it's pretty interesting, nice pattern.
Nothing like a little heat to warm the bones, I'm regretting not bringing the wood
stove.
Alright, all packed up here ready to head out of the woods, didn't find any
thing with a heartbeat, but I saw a lot of tracks, nothing super fresh and I
gotta be out winter conditions to test myself ,so that's always fun, stay tuned
for more content on this channel all year and through next winter 2019 - 2020.
Alright, thanks for watching!