These are all great pics! Congrats to everyone!👍
Like most who've posted, this was my first elk hunt. I turned 40 at the end of August and wanted to prove to myself I wasn't an old man. Took vacation Sept 4 through the 14, drove 15 hours and bought an OTC archery tag in southern CO, and then...
Hunted the 4th through 14th OTC, solo, in southern CO. Found sign from 8,000 to 11,000 feet but mostly a week to two weeks old. Freshest sign was 10k and up. Never saw an elk or heard an elk the first 9 days of hunting. Camped out of a tent at 8500'. On the 10th day at 2:00 p.m. I shook...
"You do the right thing, that’s what you do. "
Ha! Obviously I wouldn't let someone who is incapacitated die on the mountain. I was thinking more along the lines of a broken leg, chest pain, etc. where it wasn't necessarily life threatening. GregB's reply was along the lines of my thinking...
Great info! Thanks for the replies!
I know some states will incur the cost of a SAR as a result of an activated SOS. I'm wondering in those states that don't, if you come across someone else who needs help, and activate your SOS, who is responsible for the bill? What would you do in that...
Just curious if anyone has been involved in an intentional or unintentional situation where an SOS was activated. What were the circumstances and how did it play out? I had some close friends who had to activate their PLB last year on a hiking trip in Alaska. One of them went into hypothermia...