Ok next year I'll post when the tickets are ready.
Chuck out of the last 5 raffles 4 hunted with a 75% success and one winner took the trail ride [last year]. This year we arrived at our base camp Wed. night and after a lot of story swapping we got a little sleep and headed out at 4:30am Friday morning. We had spotted 16 cows and 4 bulls [3 shooters]
in the area the several days before. The wind was howling at a relentless pace that drove the Elk deep into the timber. We did spot a small group of cows at first light but no bulls in sight. We worked several ridges from above hoping to catch some movement along the fringes of the dark stuff that would give us a clue to where they had holed up. Several times it started snowing and it was going horizontal the wind was so strong. We hunkered down and held out all day with not much happening ending up back at camp around 8:00pm. That night we talked with a couple guys who said that there had been a helicopter hauling material and equiptment across that ridge the last couple days. Day two a different ridge across the valley and a little less wind. Around a half hour after sun up in came the helicopter landing below us in the valley and it began hauling more material across the ridge to a fire lookout. Not long after that 4 guys came pushing through the bush spread out looking to find whitetail and pretty much driving anything on that ridge deeper into the timber. Now the last day, day three found us again heading onto a third ridge 2 hours before sun up. When we arrived to our vantage spot we discovered a father and son who had walked up there before us. They left at around 3:30 and walked in. Again the wind was doing warp 9.
The father son combo said that they were going to walk around the ridge and we took the que to head back out around the ridge the other way to cover several crossings that had potential for the Elk to head out on. The Elk on that ridge headed out pretty quick and we ended up catching 4 cows on a cutline only to have them haed for the timder. We sent our two shooters into the timber and they couldn't find a legal bull in the crowd. They were within 100 yrds of the Elk and had the lead cow bark at them several times. They never connected on a bull but the total experience left them with a great appreciation for the total experience of Elk hunting. Everyone left a little stiff and sore from a hard 3 days but I never heard anyone complain once about the work involved. Here's a few pics of the scenery that we enjoyed and it was worth every aching stiff bit of the trip.
Yearly guided Elk hunt raffle.
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