The Mountain Hunting Thread
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Ardent
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I have it on good authority Sasquatch takes pistol rounds as foreplay.
Thanks, Ardent. I love Alberta's mountains. Just wish we had more of them.
From a very young age, my two boys have been willing to climb a long ways, as long as there was a Mountain House in it for them.
This guy made me do a double take. Spotted him while glassing for sheep and goats. We were well above the treeline and he had to be another 1000' above us.
From a very young age, my two boys have been willing to climb a long ways, as long as there was a Mountain House in it for them.
This guy made me do a double take. Spotted him while glassing for sheep and goats. We were well above the treeline and he had to be another 1000' above us.
Where there is food... he is up there for the same reason as your boys.
Yessir, Hoyt. From urban parks to mountain tops, and anywhere in between. Whatever it takes to survive. Coyotes are very cool critters.
Great pic, Why not!
As a Geographer, this is simply sublime. I can't wait for my first chance to play around at the foot of a glacier, I'll nerd out so hard...
Ardent, I noticed the pic you posted to start this thread had you camping right on a scree slope. Does that not worry you? I guess its not very active, considering their is moss and stuff growing, but still... Land slides are scary stuff...
LordEvilPepper
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- Under a rusty barge in BC
Been trying for a sheep for a for years now....
First time round with the .338LM in tow
My best friend who owns his own Outfitter business
This was a scouting trip so packing light on the firearms
we gots eyes on two flocks of big horn, a male group and a female group
Gots some good pictures:
First time round with the .338LM in tow
My best friend who owns his own Outfitter business
This was a scouting trip so packing light on the firearms
we gots eyes on two flocks of big horn, a male group and a female group
Gots some good pictures:
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Physical geography major here too oddly enough, ended up as a pilot and outfitter though, probably could have, maybe should have, negotiated a gentler path in life.
Interesting and important note, that’s not scree, it’s talus. Scree is smaller, and looser, think tennis balls and below in size, usually smaller than that too. Talus can be grapefruit to car sized, and comes in loose and stable variations, this talus I’ve slept on for months cumulatively and requires more than the usual attention only during the thaw (no season open) and late season (you don’t want to be up that high then and neither does the game).
And indeed glaciers do some amazing things to a landscape.
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- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
Great photos Ardent, beautiful country we live in.
From the way they teach it now adays, they mean the same thing. At least, in the lower level courses they do. I didn't take any upper division geomorphology except River Geomorph, so I'll defer to you on the more specific definitions. Most of my upper div stuff was either GIS/Spatial science related, or water related... I don't really know why, but I just love me a nice river...
As for your course in life, I think you've made a fine choice. One many of us envy I'm sure. I know I couldn't do it, I've got 3 little kids and a wife at home so I couldn't imagine spending that much time away from home because of what I'd miss.... Maybe the hippies won't have completely destroyed hunting in 15 years and I can give outfitting a go as a spry 40-something lol
Plenty of experience hunting above treeline elevations for Elk and Bighorn Sheep. Here are some of my photos to share.
Looking forward to the upcoming season.
Challenging for sure, you make it look easy enough from a pickup, must be in a dodge RAM. Some beautiful rocky mountian road huntingBighorn Sheep are said to have something like 8x vision. Not sure if there's any truth to that. A challenge to stalk for sure.
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Ardent
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It’s just a different life plan but one I’d struggle to get off, have three little ones at home too. My wife met me while I lived a split life between bush and home and she accompanied all over the north while we lived north chasing flying gigs. She determined it was preferable to live where we want to and I’ll go away to work, as all my industries are out there so to speak. In the end I grumble but it’s the best fit for us, when I work, I’m truly gone, when I’m home I’m truly home. They both just occur in much larger blocks of time than most schedules. When I say “Honey love ya, headed to work.” it means driving the floatplane to work and being away a couple weeks. Certainly plenty of 6 weekers happen with a week or two home too, but you make it up in winter hopefully. Heli work runs on an even home/away split in my world, well usually. I think it’s actually a pretty natural way for humans to live, and appeases the hunter gatherer genes.
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Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Ted, you and a young Douglas appear to have had an awful lot in common!
And nice pics LordEvil, have a pipe as well.
We did, however he never did come around to carrying a 270.
That rifle sure put up a lot of meat over the years, even though it was fitted with a 3X Leupold. My father-in-law killed a huge ram in the Ruby Range using it when he was 76 years old. I was right beside him when he did it. What a privilege!
I hope to honour him by doing the same with the same rifle this year.
Ted
That rifle sure put up a lot of meat over the years, even though it was fitted with a 3X Leupold. My father-in-law killed a huge ram in the Ruby Range using it when he was 76 years old. I was right beside him when he did it. What a privilege!
I hope to honour him by doing the same with the same rifle this year.
Ted
