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I left for the opener, on Thursday evening, so i could get the glasses on the bowl i'd planned to be in on Sat, morning....NOTHING. Well this wasn't too unexpected as the ONE i'm hunting only shows about every 3rd day or so. That night a wicked little thunderstorm tried to un nerve me....and it did a pretty good job.
Friday morning was beautiful....i set the glass up and started scanning and WOW i picked up movement a long way away with the Bino's, but the spotting scope told me they were two bucks that would go above 180( not as big as the one that doesn't show up all the time) but i've seen them everytime i've been up there scouting. they dont stick around for the sun to come up, but they are out long enough to get a shot on them---if your nuts enough to walk over there.
The rest of the day was spent waving at Helicopters, and any and ALL search and rescue person i could gets attention.
At this point it has to be told the search for the Green Girl was ON--- as i understand it she had recently moved to Logan from Las Vegas. Was a huge fan of the Survivorman series, but had little to no experience in the woods, much less the Wilderness....ok, so genius girl dresses in green pants, a green shirt, and dyes her hair.....your way ahead of me right?...Yup, green! She takes off with 3 days food and says i'm going to become one with nature. 3 days later the missing report goes out and the search kinda continues on and off-- is she missing or runaway?
By the time I get up on the hill, she's been Missing for 10 days.Gone for 13. So i'm surprised that the hills are crawling with people. lots of them, and the helicopters were flying in and out of every little nook and cranny canyon they could find. Hmm, so i get to thinking all this activity has surely put the Big Boy on the hide.
So my plan for day one is set. I'm gonna be crazy enough to walk the extra 4.5 miles, and will set up on the 2 that have showed every day. I started my hike just after sun down( 8:45'ish) on Friday night, planning to take my time and just get there when i get there. Well around 2 it started to drizzle, no biggy right?! well the lightning soon followed, and i dont know why, but its the one thing that really gets me. the bolts were hitting less than a mile away, and as i was hiking up these 6 individual little peaks, i would be looking up for sight of the trail, and BAMMMM....the flash in my eyes was blinding....FUN!!!
Well the lightning seemed to pass as the winds picked up, the rain stayed light, but enough to be a nice noise silencer. I'm still stoked. "I'm gonna stick a pig!" i thought. I reached where i wanted to drop pack, and make the final sneak in the dark at about 5 am. I sneak another 200 yards, to where they cross over a saddle, the wind is perfect, but whipping! 30 mph...i'm set up perfect, now just wait for light.
Light comes and nothing, but more wind! and then i notice the rain isn't just rain...its F'ing snow too! and its not falling, its coming across the saddle sideways. YAY! for 2 hours i sat and nothing....and at that point with the weather, i didn't think i would, so i let my guard down a bit, and my body remembered the hours spent getting there....i got tired!
I found a nice little bush that broke the wind perfect while giving me good concealment, i sat...and about every 5th blink or so and the old eyes just didn't reopen, until my head fell forward waking me up again. I'm guessing it was about the 4th time that happened, he saw my head drop and my reaction of waking up. He snorted and from 7 yards gave a quick 2 bounds and was gone out of my life.(i hate 2 points!!!)
At that point the clouds moved in and i couldn't see 30 yards in front of me. i was sure the days hunt was over...all that energy put into getting over there, and now what. I'd planned on still hunting through the timber on my way back to camp if i needed to, but i couldn't see it. so i decided to go right back the way i came. By the time(4 hours later) i got to the last peak, the clouds began to lift, and a pretty nice come out.
But at that point I was done for the week....i thought no point in sticking around with Search and recovery in the area, and the other two bucks weren't going anywhere, so opening day at 4 pm i came off the mountain.....grabbed a beer, and a blonde and relaxed!
Guys i will try to add to this Friday- Good luck to those still hunting!
Friday morning was beautiful....i set the glass up and started scanning and WOW i picked up movement a long way away with the Bino's, but the spotting scope told me they were two bucks that would go above 180( not as big as the one that doesn't show up all the time) but i've seen them everytime i've been up there scouting. they dont stick around for the sun to come up, but they are out long enough to get a shot on them---if your nuts enough to walk over there.
The rest of the day was spent waving at Helicopters, and any and ALL search and rescue person i could gets attention.
At this point it has to be told the search for the Green Girl was ON--- as i understand it she had recently moved to Logan from Las Vegas. Was a huge fan of the Survivorman series, but had little to no experience in the woods, much less the Wilderness....ok, so genius girl dresses in green pants, a green shirt, and dyes her hair.....your way ahead of me right?...Yup, green! She takes off with 3 days food and says i'm going to become one with nature. 3 days later the missing report goes out and the search kinda continues on and off-- is she missing or runaway?
By the time I get up on the hill, she's been Missing for 10 days.Gone for 13. So i'm surprised that the hills are crawling with people. lots of them, and the helicopters were flying in and out of every little nook and cranny canyon they could find. Hmm, so i get to thinking all this activity has surely put the Big Boy on the hide.
So my plan for day one is set. I'm gonna be crazy enough to walk the extra 4.5 miles, and will set up on the 2 that have showed every day. I started my hike just after sun down( 8:45'ish) on Friday night, planning to take my time and just get there when i get there. Well around 2 it started to drizzle, no biggy right?! well the lightning soon followed, and i dont know why, but its the one thing that really gets me. the bolts were hitting less than a mile away, and as i was hiking up these 6 individual little peaks, i would be looking up for sight of the trail, and BAMMMM....the flash in my eyes was blinding....FUN!!!
Well the lightning seemed to pass as the winds picked up, the rain stayed light, but enough to be a nice noise silencer. I'm still stoked. "I'm gonna stick a pig!" i thought. I reached where i wanted to drop pack, and make the final sneak in the dark at about 5 am. I sneak another 200 yards, to where they cross over a saddle, the wind is perfect, but whipping! 30 mph...i'm set up perfect, now just wait for light.
Light comes and nothing, but more wind! and then i notice the rain isn't just rain...its F'ing snow too! and its not falling, its coming across the saddle sideways. YAY! for 2 hours i sat and nothing....and at that point with the weather, i didn't think i would, so i let my guard down a bit, and my body remembered the hours spent getting there....i got tired!
I found a nice little bush that broke the wind perfect while giving me good concealment, i sat...and about every 5th blink or so and the old eyes just didn't reopen, until my head fell forward waking me up again. I'm guessing it was about the 4th time that happened, he saw my head drop and my reaction of waking up. He snorted and from 7 yards gave a quick 2 bounds and was gone out of my life.(i hate 2 points!!!)
At that point the clouds moved in and i couldn't see 30 yards in front of me. i was sure the days hunt was over...all that energy put into getting over there, and now what. I'd planned on still hunting through the timber on my way back to camp if i needed to, but i couldn't see it. so i decided to go right back the way i came. By the time(4 hours later) i got to the last peak, the clouds began to lift, and a pretty nice come out.
But at that point I was done for the week....i thought no point in sticking around with Search and recovery in the area, and the other two bucks weren't going anywhere, so opening day at 4 pm i came off the mountain.....grabbed a beer, and a blonde and relaxed!
Guys i will try to add to this Friday- Good luck to those still hunting!
mr. bigs bed! Then as I am scanning the trail in front of me I notice what appears to be a dug out cave into the side of the cliff that is Bed #3, i'm at full draw when I come around the half bend to find the bed empty- of course. Then i notice...wind switch....No Good can come of this!!!! and it wasn't 30 seconds and the side of the ledge sounded like it was falling...I ran forward, just in time to see him going up and over escape route number 3(that i had never seen from scouting). 30 yards....I was there...in his bedroom, 30 GD yards, and he didn't know it. Oh well, such is the story of my life.
