Brambles
10-18-2007, 05:09 PM
Well my office till sometime in Late November anyways.:biggrin:
Found this spot this spring and snapped these photo's on May 17th 2007 had hopes of going up earlier this season but the fly-in trip got in the way, and a few more uncontrollable circumstances...
Weather forcast called for snow at 900 meters so I cleared my busy schedule and headed out to see if I could find my way up.
Found my way up I did, after a while I cut a fresh track, a buck track to boot. Now you ask, how do I know it was a buck?????
Did I smell its poo, sniff the air or maybe analyze the track, nope. I found the area he was bedded in and there were 3 rubs with in 30 ft of his bed and he was sleeping right under the biggest one.
Only damn deer track in the whole country, maybe he's a monster???:mrgreen:
Tracked him for hours until he went down the backside, didn't feel like beating the feces out of myself, never did get a look at him but he led me to a beautiful small hidden basin and he taught me A LOT about this new area.
I have to admit, some of the best times I have had in the bush is just following tracks and seeing where the deer go. You can learn sooooo much about an area by just picking a track and following it. I didn't even care if I seen him or not, just nice to be in the classroom.
However the snow really started to fall and the fog was moving in, I didn't have my watch or GPS just my boot prints to follow so I headed back. I only covered about 1/100 th of the ridge so I got a lot more classroom time coming.
One thing I'm not sure of is if he's vacating the Hi-country or just wandering around, there was only 4 inches of snow give or take a bit, not sure why he was headed down the back side, plenty of water where he was bedded. I've glassed the backside from another mountain on a few occasions and there are a few open areas on the hillside that may provide better forage, maybe he was just getting the munchies????
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/Brambles77/MountainStitch1.jpg
Found this spot this spring and snapped these photo's on May 17th 2007 had hopes of going up earlier this season but the fly-in trip got in the way, and a few more uncontrollable circumstances...
Weather forcast called for snow at 900 meters so I cleared my busy schedule and headed out to see if I could find my way up.
Found my way up I did, after a while I cut a fresh track, a buck track to boot. Now you ask, how do I know it was a buck?????
Did I smell its poo, sniff the air or maybe analyze the track, nope. I found the area he was bedded in and there were 3 rubs with in 30 ft of his bed and he was sleeping right under the biggest one.
Only damn deer track in the whole country, maybe he's a monster???:mrgreen:
Tracked him for hours until he went down the backside, didn't feel like beating the feces out of myself, never did get a look at him but he led me to a beautiful small hidden basin and he taught me A LOT about this new area.
I have to admit, some of the best times I have had in the bush is just following tracks and seeing where the deer go. You can learn sooooo much about an area by just picking a track and following it. I didn't even care if I seen him or not, just nice to be in the classroom.
However the snow really started to fall and the fog was moving in, I didn't have my watch or GPS just my boot prints to follow so I headed back. I only covered about 1/100 th of the ridge so I got a lot more classroom time coming.
One thing I'm not sure of is if he's vacating the Hi-country or just wandering around, there was only 4 inches of snow give or take a bit, not sure why he was headed down the back side, plenty of water where he was bedded. I've glassed the backside from another mountain on a few occasions and there are a few open areas on the hillside that may provide better forage, maybe he was just getting the munchies????
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/Brambles77/MountainStitch1.jpg