How not to get lost when hunting around Kamloops for mule deer

[Jelvis]

-- What I think is a great idea for two guys or gals out hunting Kammy hills and dales is walk together in the ridges. Stay together (all the time) from the vehicle and back until you get to know that ridge especially if it has trails that are being used recently. Don't walk in a ways and seperate whatever happens, stay within eyesight at all times.
-- Walk from the truck together, read compass together, then walk close enuff to each other one behind the other. When you walk with a buddy like this, your four legs sound like an animal walking and your learning an area together. Have your own colored tape you both choose and tape a tree every 50 feet or so. Together you tape.
Jel -- if you park and walk, hiking a ridge or two, do it with someone to learn together and have a spot if it shows good sign of muley's. This way you have each other for comfort and friends, a helper right there by your side, someone who works with you and you with them to find a muley paradise near Kamloops City. Someone to help in case you get turned around a bit..

[HarryToolips]

^^^^depending on how thick the bush is, using landmarks is extremely effective - use your compass and take a bearing when leaving your vehicle, pick a landmark in the direction, or close to the direction your heading....be aware of where that landmark is at all times...pay attention to other landmarks in your surroundings, and keep a mental note of what direction they are from your path of travel....if the sun is out, it can make bush travel, even in the thick, very quick..if you have the time on you, you can use the solar watch method...in the Northern hemisphere, point the hour hand of your watch at the sun (or, if your using digital, imagine where the hands of the clock will be), then, halfway between the hour hand and twelve o clock will be your north-south line (1 o clock during daylight savings time)...you know that the sun travels in the southern horizon during the day, so the majority of the time that you determine your north-south line, your looking south, the only time your looking north is say, in the summer late evening (like say 7 pm in June, using this method your looking north....not as complicated as it sounds and with practice becomes effective..

[HarryToolips]

Plants and vegetation can also give you direction, though you have to be careful to take several bits of evidence of direction when using these methods, yes moss likes the north side of trees but it likes other sides of trees too, depending on shade...branches on the south side of trees will generally be thicker and longer, but again, be careful not to make this conclusion on just one or two pieces of evidence, take multiple trees in an area for example to make your assessment, because they can be affected from shade from other trees, from contours and hills etc...birch trees will make their own natural sunscreen on sunnier, usually more southerly facing parts of their trunk.. know the direction of the prevailing winds in your area, ie in my local it's usually from the northwest, this can be effective especially in the winter, judging by which side of the trees in a given area the majority of snow has blown onto...again, be aware that this can Ben effected by the topography, but it can give you a general guideline of your direction..

[Jelvis]

-- When you plan things out with a buddy to go out in the hills for mules in Kamloops wild country during the weeks b4 you actually get out for the day, do it slow, slow your self down mentally and plan the day from start to finish. So your both excited and confident this is going to be fun. We planned it and we're doing it.
-- when you reach your park spot in the hills, go slow, slow slow. Park, talk to bud in truck b4 getting out, don't slam doors.
Once out check compass directions from truck to where your heading in --stay with buddy in new spots, have tape and use it on the way in from truck.
-- the thing iz go slow, and quiet as you can stopping every 25 feet or so and really looking around. As you walk scan ahead and to the sides and recognize certain outstanding features in your route. Features like a huge boulder or an upturned huge stump. That's why you and buddy look back as you hunt in to recognize the view on your way out.
Jel -- you must use compass from truck and back at all times, and use some tape also when going into a new spot.