Meat from the first elk drying on alder boughs at camp
One final post on the elk hunt. The post where I emphasize the whole purpose of the trip - the meat. We came home with 2 elk and while neither was a bull elk all 7 of us still ended up with 45-50 pounds of packaged meat. That's a lot of meat. The top photo shows the meat of one cow elk at our shore camp. We carried all the meat out with camp 3-4 miles to shore in one load. And we were all very happy that we had six people to spread the load.
While on shore we all fit into a Seek Outside and a HMG teepee. The Seek Outside and wood stove kept us warm and we did all the cooking on the stove. This year we brought a cuban fiber tarp to keep the meat dry in camp. All the teepees, wood stove and tarp weighed less than 10 pounds all together - less than a pound and a half per person which is pretty good for shelter and wood stove. Another reason to spread the load and backpack hunt for elk with 6 people.
Here is a link to a video Philip made of the hunt (click here for video)
Patrick
Hanging the elk back at the boat
Travis and his calf elk
Our shore camp - with a teepee and wood stove
My cow elk
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