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    FS: Black Diamond Carbon A Trekking Pole - 130"

    Brand new Carbon Z trekking poles. These were used in my grassy front yard for about 5 minutes but it was easy to see they were too large. If you have these poles in the 120cm and want to trade, I'd do that too. $145 TYD
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    1st Elk Hunt; Montana; Toddb's packs; Gear, Analysis, Questions

    I was gone a long time and that meant I have a lot of life and work to catch up on! Sorry for the delay, if any of you were reading along. Monday: - Woke up next morning, drove 1 hour. Set up on fence crossing between hay and willows. - M that morning: “here’s some scent spray. Cover...
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    1st Elk Hunt; Montana; Toddb's packs; Gear, Analysis, Questions

    Sunday: - Woke up to complete silence. Hike up to meadow and listen. Not a peep. Call (TB's bugle he lent, used all week). Discouraging. Sit and think, discuss. - Decide that elk aren’t high based on week's experience, instead of going off backside, hunt down huge valley with trail and check...
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    1st Elk Hunt; Montana; Toddb's packs; Gear, Analysis, Questions

    Saturday: - Wake up early to bad storm, quickly drive 30 mile round trip to check weather forecast…not keen on being up on mountain if conditions would be terrible, not enough experience. - Forecast looks bearable, wetness, light showers, decided to go for it. have to be careful about wetness...
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    1st Elk Hunt; Montana; Toddb's packs; Gear, Analysis, Questions

    Friday: - Plan: hunt dope mountain (funny story there, AH meets old guy riding around on ATV with a bb gun and a bong. Offers hit. Decline, hilarity. He hunted grouse “well there’s the blue ones, the small ones, and the dumb as shit ones”)… - Change: AH goes 4 morning shit, while in position...
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    1st Elk Hunt; Montana; Toddb's packs; Gear, Analysis, Questions

    Photos should be more or less fixed! Will finish story tonight...off to the pumpkin patch with the kids.
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    1st Elk Hunt; Montana; Toddb's packs; Gear, Analysis, Questions

    Thursday: - Sleep in, drove to Big Hole Battlefield National Monument. Beautiful place, very good information. Drove to Wisdom, ate real food, drove 20 miles N and fished big hole river, AH 1st blue ribbon. - AH caught 3 grayling while will looked for other holes. - AH has river...
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    1st Elk Hunt; Montana; Toddb's packs; Gear, Analysis, Questions

    Wednesday: - Plan: hunt 1st drainage slowly, wait till thermals shift up. - Wake up listening early, all quiet, ate good bfast, game face. - Move to back of draw and wait for thermals. - Got ancy and left too early, justified with shadow line rising. Dumb, think this hurt us...
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    1st Elk Hunt; Montana; Toddb's packs; Gear, Analysis, Questions

    Tuesday: - Plan: sidehill mnt N, call down in to drainages (3) on way to meadow - Beautiful country, opens up, fresh growth, willows visible @ top of drainage. - Crosswind coming down mnt, setup to S of AH, 40 yds apart, no visible. - AH cow calls. Waits 15. Cow calls (3 seq), quick bugle...
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