Crunchy Snow

[Horn Seeker]

SUCKS!

Yesterday I hiked 2 hours uphill in the dark to get into "the spot" where the big boys live. Once I got about 1 1/2 hours up I got into the snow....VERY VERY loud and crunchy. All I heard all day was "thump thump thump" and "crash, crash, crash".


Saw two smallish bucks (near the size of the one I killed) and a bull that was too far away to tell size.

Cmon snow, we need you!

 

[Elkhunter]

Gotta love that crunchy stuff.

 

[Calif. Hunter]

Yeah, I hate that stuff, too. I think the only thing to do is be as quiet as you can and cow call once in a while - the elk are noisy in it, too.

 

[Moosie]

If you walk slow when you're in the crunchy stuff it's really only loud to you... We were walking through crunchy snow a couple years ago and thought there was nothing in 5 miles of us walking. We'd take a frew steps and listen and then jsut gave up. Soon we hear noise and Stopped and a herd of elk were coming over the ridge and we heared them before they heard us. We set up and plugged a Bull out of the herd.

Although soft snow is better a bit of captian crunch snow doesn't mean you won't get anything.

Good luck on your next outing.

 

[Horn Seeker]

Yeah, I know that too, but I still hate it!!! I actually love sitting on stand (whether in a treestand or just sitting watching an area) with crunchy snow cause you can commonly hear them a couple hundred yards off!

More frustrating Friday was the fact that I was also in pretty thick timber and I was hearing critters running 40 and 50 yards away but never getting a friggin glimpse of them.....Patience....slow down.......Aaaargh!