Elk Hunt Accomadations

 

dinner after harvesting an elk

This year on the elk hunt we went ashore with enough food to camp on the go for a solid 4 nights.  While hunting I like to eat hearty and so that represents a lot of food.  Food is heavy but it also disappears during the course of the hunt while all the fixed gear weight stays the same.  Even with all the food and gear it was not too much additional weight to our packs when distributed out among all 6 of us.  The goal of going on shore is to hike and cover country in search of elk.  And then when you find elk to carry them back to the boat at the nearest place on the coast.

However, this year - like last year - we harvested our elk on the first day and a LONG way from the coast.  We ended up packing our elk meat over 6 miles to the coast. It took 2 trips to the coast to pack all the meat out.  Once we knew that at most we'd be spending 3 nights on shore and most likely 2, we started to eat like crazy to get the weight down.  For breakfast we doubled the eggs and added an extra onion to a frittata.  For dinner we added 2 salamis to the pasta.  I was actually impressed that everybody ate so much and that we had no leftovers!  And in 2 days we ate most of the food we had budgeted for 4 days.

Patrick

cooking s'mores with the woodstove

starting dinner on woodstove and checking in reaches

A late breakfast

Best accommodations of all and with beer

teepee and Luci lights

dinner - trying to use up all our food before packing out to the coast