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<blockquote data-quote="Coyboy" data-source="post: 475338" data-attributes="member: 3733"><p>I might add,</p><p></p><p>Most guys overplan there stay in the backcountry. Honestly if this is new ground to you I would not pack in 9 days of stuff. You park and pack in 4 miles north with a weeks worth of stuff and see nothing? Now what.</p><p></p><p>Your best option is to set up a COMFORTABLE base camp at the truck. If you get bad weather, injury, shoot somthing and pack it out, ect. You have a comfortable place to rest.</p><p></p><p>From there, spike out, pack lite for a one or two night outing, carry light, glass and move acordingly. If you don't find a shooter it is time to move to a different area, or go further in. If your spike camp is 4 miles in and you decide to go another 2-3 miles in, walk back to the truck empty, and resupply, leaving spotters and one gun at the spike camp. </p><p></p><p>9 days in one direction is a big investment, after all your hunting mule deer, I would hate to carry in 9 days of stuff and you both tag out on day 3. I've been there and done that in one weeks time I had set camp up 3 times in 3 different spots. The first and second were in very poor places that made hunting harder.</p><p>#3 ended up being a camp I used for another 4 hunts in following years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Coyboy, post: 475338, member: 3733"] I might add, Most guys overplan there stay in the backcountry. Honestly if this is new ground to you I would not pack in 9 days of stuff. You park and pack in 4 miles north with a weeks worth of stuff and see nothing? Now what. Your best option is to set up a COMFORTABLE base camp at the truck. If you get bad weather, injury, shoot somthing and pack it out, ect. You have a comfortable place to rest. From there, spike out, pack lite for a one or two night outing, carry light, glass and move acordingly. If you don't find a shooter it is time to move to a different area, or go further in. If your spike camp is 4 miles in and you decide to go another 2-3 miles in, walk back to the truck empty, and resupply, leaving spotters and one gun at the spike camp. 9 days in one direction is a big investment, after all your hunting mule deer, I would hate to carry in 9 days of stuff and you both tag out on day 3. I've been there and done that in one weeks time I had set camp up 3 times in 3 different spots. The first and second were in very poor places that made hunting harder. #3 ended up being a camp I used for another 4 hunts in following years. [/QUOTE]
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