Alright, hey how you guys doing. I'll let
you guys know that are out here doing a
quick 24-hour scouting trip looking for
elk hunting grounds.
The thought is is when it snows up
higher later on this year, it's gonna
push the animals down to this area, it's
kind of a bottleneck area, to get to low
country, so I'm out here just looking for
sign scouting the land and see if it
really holds up true to my thoughts.
Alright, we'll see you guys all right we're
a little bit into it and sure enough a
few days ago, looks like a small herd
maybe the looks like a big cow to me, but
not quite sure stepped here, you see it
stepped right there, where the dirts
clumped up and they continued on that
way, so the elk are for sure here, just got to
see if they stick in the area or they're
just passing through, we'll see what the
day holds all right let's get out of
here. We have some half-way fresh
droppings probably a week or so old
right here we have a bed, so they're for
sure in the area. Let's go see if we
could find some more sign. Come along
here about an hour now, since I last
checked in just falling all trails see
what I could find and I found this
interesting little thing here you can
see where a bear more than likely, stood
his hind legs there and was digging on
this stump here, so that's pretty
interesting. Alright, let's keep moving
forward.
Alright, I've been side-hilling along this way
a bit, trying to figure out the best way
to get down there.
Aa few minutes ago I came across I looked
down very steep and it was full devils
club and I didn't see many elk going
that way, so I said nope, but sure enough
coming along and you can see this elk
highway that I found, that goes down there,
so when in doubt, follow the elk, they be
doing this a lot longer than we have. I'm
pretty impressed by this elk highway
here, it's really nice. I might even add a
little way point, so when I come back
tomorrow, I can pick this up again and get up
this hillside.
Alright, let's carry on. You know this
one didn't make it out alive, you can see
it's pretty old,
you got moss growing on it, cool.
Let me give me update what's going on. I
went down to where I was attending to go,
but I didn't feel like camping there, and
so I made a big lollipop route, but then
when I looked on the map there was two
major water sources in the forest, but
when I got to those points they were
both dried up, because we're having a
very low dry spell here in Washington
State, so that means I had to double back
before dark. I got about an hour before
dark
to get back to the last water that I had
a few hours ago, so I'm gonna get water
there and then hopefully camp nearby, so
times ticking before dark.
Alright, made it to a little campsite
before dark here, kind of pitched on a
hillside, but that's okay.
I'll sleep in like a little dip that's
right there,
so I won't roll around too much on the
hill and then now I got to go towards
the light and get some camp water,
because I'm thirsty. Alright, got my
water there and this trip I decided to
go stove less to simplify things and
it's pretty warm weather out, so I don't
really need to take the chill off to eat
hot food. Usually I can't really can't
stand Subway, but I was in a hurry after
work, so I just grabbed a sandwich and
we'll shove it down. We'll see how this
slop tastes, probably pretty good
actually after a few hours of walking.
Alright,
mosquitoes are awake, I woke up early, so
I'm going to bed early.
Good morning, waking up here in the
forest,
as you can see Suns starting to come up
already, kind of laid around for about an
hour on the tent half-awake doing some
bedtime meditations. Slept pretty good,
didn't hear much was pretty quiet last
night. Well I'm gonna eat some food, break
down camp and mosey around see what I
can find on the way out.
Making my way out of the woods here, I
think overall it was a good trip I got
to learn the country and got to see some
elk migration patterns and then get an
idea of the type of visibility in the
forest. A lot of the area that I was in
was pretty good, I can get about 40 yards
without having any obstruction in
certain areas, so that's pretty good,
so I'll for sure be coming back here I'm
gonna come hunting season, I'm thinking
late seasons best right now,
it's so dry in the forest, almost every
step is crunch crunch crunch, so I don't
think that this would be a good early
season spot, wait took it's lots of rain
and some snow and then we'll talk.
Alright, thanks for coming along guys.