Pretty good, but your supposed to ask Where’s your honey hole? In a round about way. Something like “hey guys, new her!!! Love the site tons of great info!!!!! I’m headed out from Miami this September to archery hunt elk!!!! I’ve got my podcasts all dialed in, and of course all my outfits to wear!!!! What I’m Not real sure about is where to start my hunt- I know from Randy Newberg that I should try to find burns with ONX. What I was wondering since I’m new at this and not real sure about the access/easement/parking/trailhead/hiking/camping/hunting/packing part of it is if anyone would be down with letting me park near them and hike in with them but maybe set up camp a hundred or so yards from each other to enjoy the solo backcountry experience. I don’t want the coordinates to your honey hole or anything- I’m just worried about trespassing or getting my truck broken into because it was parked wrong. Also here’s my instagram if you want to follow along Thanks
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You’ve got plenty of 2500 foot STEEP elevation gains and losses in your “local” mountains. If you can traverse that steep thick stuff- you will not encounter anything steeper or thicker outwest, that and a high baseline cardio fitness level (plenty of interval workouts with Pack and also running to focus on recovery time) will mitigate a lot of the stuff that steepens the learning curve. That and being willing to follow elk tracks. That and learning to ID on the map the places guys will go to hunt elk,
And the places the elk will go in response. Typical trip for me is 1 day decompress and get in the woods, day 2-3 whimsically check out the places I figure would look elky and have signs of hunters- and they do,
So I get irritated, by day 4 I’m getting desperate and go to the places that ID’d as options that the elk will exercise in response to pressure, kill and Pack out elk. I never go to where I kill one first. Always try the obvious “easy” places first. Until I’m desperate or irritable enough to go where they actually are.