Blacktail Trophy Tactics II - Thermals Wuestion

[bricketts]

Hey all, quick question for those whether you have or have not read the book.
I read it every year before/during season and don’t know how I didn’t catch this before, but Boyd speaks of “downhill blowing thermals” in the morning multiple times in the book.

In my personal experience, in the blacktail and mule deer woods and anywhere in between, the morning thermals are almost always blowing uphill. I’m curious what others experience is with this and if what I have found is an exception to others experience?
For whatever reason it’s given me a lot to ponder this season and is something I’ve been paying extra close attention to studying while in the woods. I’ve always hunted using the wind direction as my primary guide of course, which has always led me to hunting from the top of a ridge downward in the morning except days where the prevailing wind counters this.

I’m in no way trying to counter the blacktail legend himself, just opening up a curious discourse! As I said, I’m on about my 7th read of the book and it is my blacktail bible. Happy hunting everyone!

 

[roosiebull]

Depends on the weather and time of morning, but generally on cold mornings before 9am, thermals are generally dropping

The west side in general, thermals are not as straightforward as they are in mountainous mule deer habitat, we have smaller temp swings, more chopped up terrain, and directional winds that all can change the classic stereotypical thermals

Calm cold mornings they are going to be dropping until it warms up and opposite in the afternoon

 

[bricketts]

Thanks for the insight on this @roosiebull! That makes sense how our diverse, tampered terrain on the west coast abides by some different rules. I appreciate your feedback, I need to just get you on speed dial at this point for all my west coast hunting questions lol!