How many days have you spent in the mountains this year?

[a3dhunter]

Some of you guys are blessed to get to do this stuff for a living, while others have huge amounts of vacation time to spend outdoors.
Then there are others who are weekends warriors.

Aron's thread got me to thinking, along with a few replies by guys who we know spend a lot of time using their gear out on the mountain, and I started counting up the days I've spent in the mountains since June and was surprised.

Was just curious how your season shaped up and how serious your time was?
Were you truck camping, rv camping, backpacked in somewhere?
Just day hunting?

No need to exaggerate, but humbly evaluate your time in the field this year and post up.



Aron, you don't need to make us all jealous by posting up 275 days!

 

[Stid2677]

Spring black bear 10 days

1st Sheep 12 days

Caribou 5 days

2nd Sheep 7 days

Moose 7 days

Goat 7 days

So 48 days and that does not include a couple fishing trips.

All remote fly-in except the Caribou hunt and the Bear hunt was by boat,, all nights spent in the bush. Was a slow year since I did not have a Grizz tag.

Steve

 

[Brock A]

I'm around 30 days so far. 20 of those are backpacking the rest are day hunts/duck hunts. Still have 2 months left!

 

[crumy]

From june 1
i am lucky enough to be able to drive an hour and be in the mountains so I did a lot of weekend day hikes.

Day hunting or day scouting trips- 15 days
backpacking/overnight hunting/scouting - 16 days. ( one extended hunting trip and 3 quick scouting trips)

Season for my wife and I combined
Antelope - hers
elk 6-6 hers
elk 5-5 mine

Love the experience I got. Hope to spend more time camping this year

 

[Craig Van Arsdale]

41nights so far this year almost all back country trips. I've been working everyday from October 6th till now so I missed a bunch of days chasing critters with the rifle. But I have another 15 or so field days planned before the year is over.

 

[Travis Bertrand]

Oh man, I am in the mid to high 50s. I wish it was more...

 

[justinspicher]

August
8 days

September
23 days

October
8 days

November
5 days

Everything has been day hikes so far, no overnights.

 

[dotman]

Been a tough year, 3 days scouting in CO when there was too much snow to get where I wanted, even though I was hunting a different state this year I still had to spend sometime in the usual area. 16 days in ID hell . Only have a handful of days hunting deer, haven't even kept an exact track but 5 or less.

Hopefully next year calms down and I get out more.

Moving put a damper on the year.

 

[Becca]

Spontaneously moving into a new house mid summer sort of limited our backpacking season in June and July, but that's the way life goes.

Year to date I have 56 nights and 68 days in the field. Most were either backpack or packraft trips, with the exception of two ATV based hunts we did with our parents. Still have a blacktail deer hunt and some predator hunting on the docket before the end of the year, so the tally isn't quite finished yet.

 

[luke moffat]

I guess it really depends on what you consider days in the field.......its all days in the field I suppose but for some reason I feel when I'm camping next to a car its almost cheating compared to hiking in with whats on my back. It all counts though and its all about getting out there. I believe I have around 72 to 73 as I got a couple extra days of grizzly hunting in that Becca didn't get. If it wasn't for that dang move I would have been up near 100 but such is life...there is always next year The longest trip this year was 21 days from when we left to when we got back to the house...now that was a lot of fun, but the house plants didn't seem to share our exuberance

We all just get out there as much as we can and thats what counts iMO.

 

[chippewawarrior]

5 days this spring chasing Turkey's...

5 days for 1st Rifle Elk hunting near Steamboat Springs CO...





That was my only "Mountain time" this season.

I have spent 10 days bowhunting whitetails here in the flatlands of WI.



As you can see, I had some important company...

Not as hard core, but it is field time? The WI rifle season starts on Saturday, and I hunt the entire 10 days dawn to dusk!

I can't wait...

 

[tipsntails7]

Man to totaling this up surprised me, I didn't get out nearly as much as I did last year, although you could have just had my freezer tell you that
If you count waterfowl which is never more then a 2 day trip it goes up substantially, usually average around 70 days in a duck blind.
Turkey 10
Elk 7
Deer 6
Bear 10 and counting
Waterfowl 25 and counting

 

[Slim Jim]

My new job is killing me this year! Only 21 days for me and its spread out from July through October.

 

[Elkfitness]

I don't post a lot but I was up in the colorado mountains 29 days this year. When my 5 year old gets bigger, that will go up. Couple pics from this year. I hunted from September to October in all kinds of weather. Even had my first blizzard with lightning this year

 

[FrankieP1988]

... not enough days haha

10 days spring turkey (took a nice tom with my bow)
11 days mule deer/elk archery (tag soup)
2 days antelope archery (tag soup)
2 days fall turkey ( took a hen w/ bow)
3 days whitetail doe archery (still to be determined)

I still plan on getting after some plains elk and whitetail doe over the next few weekends left this year

 

[fillthefreezer]

around 60 days and 20 nights so far

 

[bbrown]

From spring turkey until now I am at 74 days and 47 nights but I am sure I am missing a couple somewhere.

 

[Big Sky]

I don't think that I can say I have spent a single day in the "mountains" this year.
However I have spent 15 days float fishing, 4 days antelope hunting, 3 days sheep hunting in the breaks, and 4 days elk hunting in the breaks also. I'm hoping to make it another week sheep hunting next week if everything goes according to the script.

So even though I have had much time in the field this year it has been one of the most rewarding years yet. I have helped two kids get their first antelope. And also "guided" many family and friends on the famous blue ribbon trout streams of Montana.

 

[hflier]

20 Overnights. 5 days Scouting in Co, 8 Days in AZ Bowhunting Elk. 7 Days 2nd Rifle in CO. Then 5 day hunts on Whitetail in OK.

 

[robby denning]

Maybe 60 days, 40 overnights