Traipsing

We did a lot of hiking on our alpine hunt.  It was probably less than 18 miles total, but the miles were HARD.  Where we were there are no trail and the ground was often very uneven.  And then there were the serious ups and downs, and occasional patch of bushwhacking.  A six mile day in that terrain is seriously exhausting.  And Glorious!  We were mostly in the high alpine looking out over coastal fjords and glacially sculpted terrain.

Ironically we had such good hiking because the deer hunting was not all that great.  In years' past there were big bucks everywhere, and we never had to hike very far before we found a deer to harvest.  It seems our lake has been discovered and is seeing hunting pressure.  There are still deer everywhere and plenty of spikes and forks, but to find the bachelor groups of big bucks you have to hike a long ways from camp.  We only found 2 such groups and one of them busted us and ran away before we were ready.  So we did a lot of hiking in the glorious alpine!  Patrick