MichelD
09-07-2008, 08:21 AM
My neighbour's son asked me yesterday if I'd take him and a friend hunting.
They are very fit outdoor enthusiasts in their 30s. Your classic MEC clad urban hiker/kayakers who have sen the light.
The neighbour is 67 and used to hunt regularly for meat on the Charlottes. I talked him into renewing his hunting licence for the first time in 20 years last year.
So if I agree, this looks like it would be a major expedition, we'd set up camp somewhere and I guess the other licenced hunter and I would each take the other out for the actual hunting part.
My problem is that I don't like hunting with others. Hanging out at camp is okay, but in the hills I want to be alone.
Anyway, I'll do it if I can make time in October, but I was casting around for somewhere I've always wanted to go that I haven't been to yet, but would have a fair chance of at least a deer sighting and hopefully a buck of any kind.
The one guy who asked me has been on one deer kill with a friend, but he said they were really quite clueless in the gutting and skinning department so they want to see it done right.
Anyway, I'm wondering where to take them. I'd like to find a spot where there is lots of room for two parties of two so we could go in opposite directions on foot and get hunting. I've really got an itch to get into the Camelsfoot Range, but I don't know whether to access it from the West or East. There's always Pemberton, but that gets crowded, and there's Princeton too.
Maybe somewhere in Region 5? Loon lake, Bonaparte? I don't know region 5 very much. Somewhere with lots of walk-in access is what I'm looking for.
There would be probably be four of us crammed into a Land Cruiser.
They are very fit outdoor enthusiasts in their 30s. Your classic MEC clad urban hiker/kayakers who have sen the light.
The neighbour is 67 and used to hunt regularly for meat on the Charlottes. I talked him into renewing his hunting licence for the first time in 20 years last year.
So if I agree, this looks like it would be a major expedition, we'd set up camp somewhere and I guess the other licenced hunter and I would each take the other out for the actual hunting part.
My problem is that I don't like hunting with others. Hanging out at camp is okay, but in the hills I want to be alone.
Anyway, I'll do it if I can make time in October, but I was casting around for somewhere I've always wanted to go that I haven't been to yet, but would have a fair chance of at least a deer sighting and hopefully a buck of any kind.
The one guy who asked me has been on one deer kill with a friend, but he said they were really quite clueless in the gutting and skinning department so they want to see it done right.
Anyway, I'm wondering where to take them. I'd like to find a spot where there is lots of room for two parties of two so we could go in opposite directions on foot and get hunting. I've really got an itch to get into the Camelsfoot Range, but I don't know whether to access it from the West or East. There's always Pemberton, but that gets crowded, and there's Princeton too.
Maybe somewhere in Region 5? Loon lake, Bonaparte? I don't know region 5 very much. Somewhere with lots of walk-in access is what I'm looking for.
There would be probably be four of us crammed into a Land Cruiser.