shanevg
WKR
Well we are back from our Alaska Sitka Blacktail adventure. Alecvg, myself, and our buddy Brian all left WA on 8/14 to travel by car/ferry up to AK with the potential to shoot 12 bucks (4 a piece.) We didn't fill all our tags but we did get 7 bucks and had a great time!
Our plan was to travel by car, then by ferry and stay in a forest service cabin up in SE AK. We had backpacking tents and had plans to climb the rough and hard to climb mountains to take some giant bucks! The first 2 weeks of August had been blue bird skies every day, but the forecast was calling for plenty of rain, which wasn't what we were hoping for!
The first we awoke to to a bit of rain, but after going to town to pick up tags, we had some broken clouds and it looked good to climb the first mountain on our list.
Alec and Brian getting ready to climb:
Deer trails in the wet, muddy ground up there are incredible!
Very steep country!
And brushy!
Our plan was to travel by car, then by ferry and stay in a forest service cabin up in SE AK. We had backpacking tents and had plans to climb the rough and hard to climb mountains to take some giant bucks! The first 2 weeks of August had been blue bird skies every day, but the forecast was calling for plenty of rain, which wasn't what we were hoping for!
The first we awoke to to a bit of rain, but after going to town to pick up tags, we had some broken clouds and it looked good to climb the first mountain on our list.
Alec and Brian getting ready to climb:
Deer trails in the wet, muddy ground up there are incredible!
Very steep country!
And brushy!