I was a FS firefighter for 8 years. It's amazing how quick animals will go into a burn...even an active one. They LOVE the minerals in the charcoal. On more than one occasion we helped folks fill tags by stopping by campsites and saying "if you go down the road XX miles to where our burn is, you...
Stormfront it is then. Thanks for the reply, and all the other info you share, but you should really let Mrs. Fin take a break now and then. She was up awful late tending to emails.
I took a non-hunter... actually a vegetarian city girl, on an elk hunt 13 years ago.
Next weekend is our 12 year anniversary, with two little boys to show for it.
Careful who you take in the woods ;)
BTW, I got my elk too..
I'd be really interested to hear feedback on Sitka's waterproof stuff, specifically pants. Unlike ORElkie, I live on the wet side of Oregon...where rainfall is literally measured in feet for the year, and everything that grows here has thorns.