Recent content by 8Crow

Any of you veteran backpack hunters ever have issues with critters paying you a visit in your floorless shelters while elk hunting the rockies? Bow season, rifle seasons...any of it.

I have a brand new Wilderness Pack Specialties "Handi-Pak", custom made with a pouch on the outside to hold a water bladder. Also have a brand new gen IV molle frame to go with it. No shoulder straps or hip belt included. $30 TYD. WPS has a picture of the handi-pak up on their website--note...

I'm going through the process of "field testing" in my back yard right now, so I'll throw in my 2 cents... First, you must have an appropriate pad or you can throw everything else out the window. In my ignorance I suffered through the Colorado 1st Rifle Season on a Thermarest Ridgerest and...

I went elk hunting in CO a couple years ago. My brother-in-law and I wore our well-worn, insulated deer hunting boots while my buddy dropped the $300+ on a pair of Kenetrek MI 400's. Good friend that I am, I chided him non-stop prior to our trip on dumping so much money on a pair of boots...