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    FS: Black Diamond Carbon A Trekking Pole - 130"

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    FS: Black Diamond Carbon A Trekking Pole - 130"

    $125
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    FS: Black Diamond Carbon A Trekking Pole - 130"

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    FS: Black Diamond Carbon A Trekking Pole - 130"

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    FS: Black Diamond Carbon A Trekking Pole - 130"

    $135
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    FS: Black Diamond Carbon A Trekking Pole - 130"

    $140
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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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    1st Elk Hunt; Montana; Toddb's packs; Gear, Analysis, Questions

    (Someone is going to have to help me format these pics!) Monday: - Plan: we told 2 hunters camped across road we would hunt a different mountain than where we saw the bull that night, so we wanted to stick to our word. Hunt base CD in morning, regroup, move on bull in afternoon...
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    1st Elk Hunt; Montana; Toddb's packs; Gear, Analysis, Questions

    This is looking back down at the valley we spent most of the time hunting in. We covered, more or less, all of what is in this picture. If you look closely, you can see a meadow down in the valley - that was our basecamp, and that photo was about 4 miles as the crow flies.
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    1st Elk Hunt; Montana; Toddb's packs; Gear, Analysis, Questions

    I just asked my wife to give me context if I was overblowing this at all, and she said no. This is the trip that changed my life. The story for this trip starts about 18 months ago. I'd reached a point where I'd gone full-on dad mode and quit exercising (had two kids, gym was one of the first...
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    Backpack Problem; Plans for 1st Elk Hunt; Shoot me straight...

    Haven't had service in two weeks, working on a detailed post!
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    Backpack Problem; Plans for 1st Elk Hunt; Shoot me straight...

    Those are my two rules for whitetails, glad that transfers. Leave in two days...

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