Best book for mountain hunt

[jac]

Hey all

I’m going on a 10 day backpack sheep hunt in a month. Anyone have a recommendation for a good soft cover book to bring. If the weather is really bad may have some time to read. Looking for something hunting or mountain related.

thanks
jac

[eatram]

Don't disregard this book just because you may not follow it's beliefs or teachings, but I pack a really small version of the bible, new testament and psalms. It is really compact, and has a lot of wisdom and insight in there about life, etc. What better place to read a book about life and death than in God's country. No better place/time in the world than on a Sheep Hunt to think about such things. My 2 cents

[Ron.C]

"Grizzlies In Their Backyard"

By Beth Day.

About a couple who moved from Seattle to the BC Coast and hand logged, hunted, fished,trapped. Amazing story, those people were tough as nails.

[wos]

Bad weather or not I would be spending my time glassing looking and hunting. A small tarp and a little fire can keep you at it. I am always to busy to read while hunting.

[todbartell]

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[RiverOtter]

Never packed an actual book, but have downloaded the Bible to my phone. An isolated mountain hunt away from all of life's distractions seems to put things in perspective and draw out the deeper purpose of our lives here on earth.

[Mudsey]

A book is a great idea, I'm an avid reader and would take something light weight, with smaller print so itwould last longer. I've spent as much as 36hrs straight in a tent on a mountain because of rain/fog.

[jac]

Not to worried about the rain but if we get fogged in not much point glassing 150 feet away. Hopefully don’t have time to read just don’t want to sit under the tarp all day wishing I had something. We also have a light weight crib board which we really like

[the_longwalker]

Any of the Stoics would be good reading up there. Lots of time for contemplation while you glass.

[butcher]

I read my first Wilbur Smith novel while on a snowy sheep hunt. Good entertaining reads for tent bound days. We got a nice 39” ram on that hunt. Lots of time for reading and glassing.

[backstrap]

Grass beyond the mountains

a man called red

horns in the high country

in the land of the red goat
(especially if you love bush/float planes)

[45freezer]

Grass beyond the mountains

a man called red

horns in the high country

in the land of the red goat
(especially if you love bush/float planes)

+1 for the man called red, my 9 year old is reading it right now and loves it so far.

[Rhyno]

"Grizzlies In Their Backyard"

By Beth Day.

About a couple who moved from Seattle to the BC Coast and hand logged, hunted, fished,trapped. Amazing story, those people were tough as nails.

This was my favourite book as a kid! There is another version of it called "home if the grizzlies". I wouldn't recemmond to bring in a long hunt only because it's a quick read.

[decker9]

“Hard hunting” by Patrick Shaughnessy and Diane Swingle is a great mountain hunting book, tough to find a copy, but worth the read if a guy can find it.

“Gone hunting” and “gone hunting again” by pat Ferguson are a couple other good ones.

This year im changing it up a bit, leaving the book at home and taking my lady instead heh heh.

[Greenthumbed]

"Touching the Void"
by Joe Simpson is a true story of a mountaineering accident and survival. What Mr. Simpson goes through and lives to tell the tale is simply amazing.

[jessonml]

Some really good recommendations already. I just finished Rinella’s “American Buffalo” and really enjoyed it. It’s nice and small...

[boxhitch]

when things really get tough and it seems you can't make another day, pull out Jon Krakauers Into Thin Air for a bit of perspective

Take a smaller book than Wilburs fat stories, they never seem to end til late in the winter at home

Had one book once for three of us stuck in a storm. First 100 pages were read then torn off and passed around, sucked that the slow reader wasn't last in line

[huntcoop]

The Joe Pickett series of books by C.J.Box

[IslandWanderer]

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[Beachcomber]

"Touching the Void"
by Joe Simpson is a true story of a mountaineering accident and survival. What Mr. Simpson goes through and lives to tell the tale is simply amazing.

Great read. Also, on a similar theme, The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer. He was part of the first team to climb the north face of the Eiger and talks about the many attempts - and lives lost - to climb it.

[weatherbyjunkie]

Man Called Red,as mentioned above. Amazing book,well written and lots of history!

[mpotzold]

Re: Classic Hunting Books/Authors/Reading(2017)

My post

The Wilderness of Denali by Charles Sheldon- A REAL GEM!

A book that is "a memoir of three years of hunting the area of Alaska surrounding Mt. McKinley. It is a classic of American adventure—a book written by a man who was willing to risk his life in pursuit of grizzly bears and the elusive mountain sheep. The account was written each night by campfire as Sheldon discovered what is still regarded as the most scenic wilderness in America."

After reading the book as a teen in Ont. had to move to BEAUTIFUL BC & never looked back.

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Then there is the other Shelton!:biggrin:
All of Gary Shelton's books are a must read before venturing into grizz country.

[Romain]

Anything Louis Lamour

[albravo2]

If you are solo a nice sasquatch book is very relaxing. Or maybe Murray can recommend a book on bear attacks in your region.

Kidding, of course, I'd take anything on bushcraft. You might get to use a trick or two.

[hookedonblacktails]

Re: Classic Hunting Books/Authors/Reading(2017)

My post

The Wilderness of Denali by Charles Sheldon- A REAL GEM!

A book that is "a memoir of three years of hunting the area of Alaska surrounding Mt. McKinley. It is a classic of American adventure—a book written by a man who was willing to risk his life in pursuit of grizzly bears and the elusive mountain sheep. The account was written each night by campfire as Sheldon discovered what is still regarded as the most scenic wilderness in America."

After reading the book as a teen in Ont. had to move to BEAUTIFUL BC & never looked back.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51sLYOA627L._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Then there is the other Shelton!:biggrin:
All of Gary Shelton's books are a must read before venturing into grizz country.


Excellent book!

[walks with deer]

lol bringing the lady for tent heat..and occupy snowed in days...sound.like a honey moon.

[LBM]

Take a note pad and write your own story/journal lots of things can go through ones mind
when sitting waiting for weather. If you watched the last alaskans show you will see how some of
them made notes every day of what the say, caught, weather etc.
I wish I had kept a journal when guiding.

[stosto]

Some really good recommendations already. I just finished Rinella’s “American Buffalo” and really enjoyed it. It’s nice and small...

American buffalo

[knothead]

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Know thine enemy?

[LuckyHorseshoe]

My vote would be a man called red. Perfect read for a hunting trip. Also Alaska’s wolf man by frank glazer.