by Roberta Kellis | Oct 22, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Day 11: Really cold night last night. Woke up to 37°. By dawn it dropped to 34°. The frost on the ground is thick. It’s so cold that the steel of my rifle is like ice on my fingers. I dropped Gary off on an old road parallel to the areas we are hunting. The last...
by Roberta Kellis | Oct 21, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Day 10: Another cold, foggy, wet morning. Starting off by staging a truck at our exit point and then checking the roads. Our first hunt took us back to yesterday’s area only this time we will approach from the upper end, not the lower end. We sat and cow called...
by Roberta Kellis | Oct 20, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Day 9 total and day three of yet another excellent wet morning. Not much fog to speak of. We are going into the place where Gary walked for 2 hours and found the fresh tracks that had just been made. The elk we are looking for has been living in this area for more...
by Jeremiah Doughty | Oct 19, 2015 | Uncategorized |
I cannot tell you how many times I have headed out into the field with a friend, new hunter or family member and I hear, “I really wish I could have spent more time practicing shooting first, before the hunt.” This sentence drives me crazy. You are telling me that you...
by Roberta Kellis | Oct 18, 2015 | Uncategorized |
It’s the weekend! Elk are tucked away as far as we know, so we came back to camp to eat lunch and do some chores before the rain starts. Wood is chopped, solar panel charging our equipment, ropes and tarp hung over the meat pole, new latrine dug, showers felt...
by Roberta Kellis | Oct 18, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Day 6: Here is a beautiful snow lake that is just a mud hole now. We glass it (with binoculars) every time we drive by looking to see if a herd has been through it or not. Last time I saw fresh sign moving through it was Monday. Holy cow!! One elk crossed back over in...
