Missing hunters in Colorado

[Nickofthewoods]

Could pulmonary or cerebral edema have caused this. I’m 30 minutes from Asheville and we don’t get much above 5000’ feet elevation.

Unlikely, especially for the guy from Utah. If the other guy came straight from sea level he might feel ill on the first day or two before acclimating but hopefully his partner would recognize if that escalated and get him to help. Hace/hape are not very common in Colorado, even at 14k.

 

[5MilesBack]

I would HIGHLY suggest that anyone who doesn’t think they need rain gear for a western hunt reevaluate that decision.

I have rain gear. Sometimes I actually use it. But normally every Sept elk hunt I'm either drenched in sweat, rain, or both. Regardless, I'm wet. In 2013 it rained so much that I hunted every day like I had just climbed out of the pool with my clothes on.

The day of my avatar pic it poured all the night before. I woke up at 5am to head out and it was still pouring, so rolled over and fell back asleep. I woke up again late, well past first light and jumped up and made my coffee, got ready, and headed out in the ~40 degree temps. It was still raining, but there was one place I wanted to hunt that morning that I had an encounter with a bull 3 days earlier. I jogged the 1.5 miles up the draw. Still raining and fog layer up top, I sent out a bugle. Immediate response across the draw and up in the timber. I went after that bull and put an arrow through him maybe 5 minutes later. The next few hours it went from downpour to drizzle to downpour several times while I worked on breaking him down. Never saw the sun that day, and it snowed the next morning.

Like I said before in the thread, if it's wet and cold......keep moving. If you can't move.......then you better have a way to build a fire.

 

[Ajvilla]

Sad