zach_destroys
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Have any of you guys found anything cool while you were in the unlimiteds? Dead heads from elk or rams? Got any pics of bears?
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Besides rams? 'Cause they're pretty cool, too.
We came across an old outfitter camp, stove and all, with markings indicating it had been around since ~1935. That's rugged country today. I can't fathom how remote it was 85 years ago.
zach_destroys
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Thats awesome man. Any more pics?
Of the camp itself? No, we were moving camp that day and I didn't bother to take more than the one. @MTGomer might have a few others- I think they're posted 20-30 pages and 200 references to the Boddington lamb back in this thread.
shines@times
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I can't top a complete abandoned camp from 1935, let alone one graced with a carved sign to date it. But here is a relic in the same genre that I found lying all by itself on the pebbly beach of a high lake:
There were no other relics nearby on that beach, nor any indications of an old camp in the nearby timber and brush. There might be an interesting story behind its origin, but I guess we'll never know.
I packed the door out nearly forty years ago with the intent of incorporating it into a homemade camp stove. No rush, it has been gaining extra patina while waiting.
There were no other relics nearby on that beach, nor any indications of an old camp in the nearby timber and brush. There might be an interesting story behind its origin, but I guess we'll never know.
I packed the door out nearly forty years ago with the intent of incorporating it into a homemade camp stove. No rush, it has been gaining extra patina while waiting.
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shines@times
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Great photo!
shines@times
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Don't forget the horse and tack that survived the wandering preacher's demise. Poignant, but still damned interesting.
Also, I would think that people who spend enough time in that country and pay attention to where they place their feet might come across a lithic artifact once or twice in lifetime. (I know a biologist who did.)
shines@times
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I did some of both in the three excursions that I made during the 1980's. My methodology was definitely evolving more toward the move and bivouac method by the time that I scored.
(And apologies to all; I know that I am way late on making additional posts on my importance of bivouacking topic--it's on my bucket list.)
zach_destroys
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Interesting for sure. Who knows, maybe someone had the same idea as you and decided it wasnt worth it at the lake shore.
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mtnkid85
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On my first sheep hunt I was working through a scrub pine forest when I stumbled into a nice round opening with a fire ring in the middle. Immediately I was overcome with a wild hair raising feeling- it wasn't fear, it was more a welcoming. I walked over to the fire ring and you could tell the rocks had been in place a very long time, but there was also a metal grate there. I felt like that was a camp with alot of history in it, like folks had been sitting at that fire telling hunting stories for a long time! So anyway I work up the basin, above the tree line a little ways and sit down on a rock to glass when I realized I was sitting right next to this arrow head.
Folks have been hunting sheep in those hills for many years!
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Almost ram season.....
Damn, these guys bust off much more horn fighting and they’ll be under the 3/4 curl requirement! Good bit of fresh breaks there.
Absolutely!!
Yeah he was such a stud, I haven’t seen or heard of anyone seeing him the last two winters either. Lion must’ve snuck up on his blind side
Glad your healing up good to see ya stopped back in
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Thanks for all the input on spike camping and or bivy hunting. Seems like everyone has a preference and I’m sure they can all work.
Some good looking rams in those photos. Helps keep that sheep blood pumping.
Some good looking rams in those photos. Helps keep that sheep blood pumping.
