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<blockquote data-quote="ndking1126" data-source="post: 2330451" data-attributes="member: 26820"><p>For anyone interested, I spent the night in Memphis and then the next night in Amarillo at 3800'. The next day I arrived at our location (7k') around 1pm and was scouting by 4pm. For about 2 hours we walked around completing maybe 2.5 miles of walking. This was about 7.5k to 8.2k in elevation. We slept at 7k that night and all nights after. The next morning at a different location we hiked up to about 9k, stayed and glassed for about 3 hours and then hiked back down. It was quite steep at times and I had worked up a decent sweat despite it being about 28, 30* and stripping off a few layers. We never went back to this location.</p><p></p><p>The next day (first day of the season) we went back to the first location and hiked about 10 miles total. Again about 7.5k to about 8.3k.</p><p></p><p>The next day we only hiked about 6 miles, but it included a very steep hike/climb up the side of a mountain to 9k. Frankly, we almost quit more than once because it was killing our lungs and legs!! We came down and I didn't do anything other than sit in the truck for about 3 hours and then chose a close location for the evening hunt.</p><p></p><p>The next and final day of our hunt, I hiked about 5, 6 miles total. I could have done more but I just didn't feel like it (haha) and the places we chose to hunt didn't require it.</p><p></p><p>All that with zero altitude sickness! We did not take medicine prior to, but we all were well hydrated. I didn't take any of the recreational oxygen canisters as I ran out of time just trying to get ready and out the door. They would have been greatly appreciated on the climb up the mountain on the second day of the hunt though!</p><p></p><p>The other 4 who are SWAT were in better shape than me, but I held my own. The only time I slowed them down was the last quarter of the way up the steep mountain. Ankle surgery and recovery, recovering from covid, throwing my back out, and the occasional sprinkling of laziness kept me from being in the shape I wanted to be in, but overall I was good to go.</p><p></p><p>For the hunt itsself, we saw about 15 cow elks, a spike, and about 15 mule deer. We saw more fresh elk tracks and poop than I ever expected to, so the fact that we didn't shoot a bull was hard to stomach.</p><p></p><p>The first morning, we were cow calling with an actual cow and then a bull joined in and was moving towards the group when another hunter shot it. The second morning we heard two elks bugling for quite a while, but couldn't get them to come closer with the cow call. Waiting so long to chase it might have been our biggest mistake of the hunt. </p><p></p><p>The third morning we went back to the place we could hear the bugling given, well... the bugling..., the ridiculous number of tracks and the lack of other hunters we saw the second morning. We split up into two groups and hunted about 700 yards apart. The northern group was calling to a bull to their north and we were trying to work one to our south and it was going really well. There was a dirt road between us and a backwoods idiot drove up and shot a mule deer buck out of his truck (of course completely illegal) and that ended our morning hunt. We never heard the bulls again. We were all furious!!</p><p></p><p>Nothing happened of note on the evening of the third night.</p><p></p><p>Overall, we had an amazing time. I still can't get over the amount of wildlife and tracks we saw. On the bottom slope of the steep mountain we climbed, we saw more mule deer tracks than I've ever seen in one area in my life regardless of the type of animal. I wouldn't have believed someone if I hadn't seen it myself. We also found one shed antler. (I'm going to create a post a little later in the mule deer section about it as I have some questions.)</p><p></p><p>The family that hosted us was amazing and the guys I met were all great. Sorry the post ended up being so long!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ndking1126, post: 2330451, member: 26820"] For anyone interested, I spent the night in Memphis and then the next night in Amarillo at 3800'. The next day I arrived at our location (7k') around 1pm and was scouting by 4pm. For about 2 hours we walked around completing maybe 2.5 miles of walking. This was about 7.5k to 8.2k in elevation. We slept at 7k that night and all nights after. The next morning at a different location we hiked up to about 9k, stayed and glassed for about 3 hours and then hiked back down. It was quite steep at times and I had worked up a decent sweat despite it being about 28, 30* and stripping off a few layers. We never went back to this location. The next day (first day of the season) we went back to the first location and hiked about 10 miles total. Again about 7.5k to about 8.3k. The next day we only hiked about 6 miles, but it included a very steep hike/climb up the side of a mountain to 9k. Frankly, we almost quit more than once because it was killing our lungs and legs!! We came down and I didn't do anything other than sit in the truck for about 3 hours and then chose a close location for the evening hunt. The next and final day of our hunt, I hiked about 5, 6 miles total. I could have done more but I just didn't feel like it (haha) and the places we chose to hunt didn't require it. All that with zero altitude sickness! We did not take medicine prior to, but we all were well hydrated. I didn't take any of the recreational oxygen canisters as I ran out of time just trying to get ready and out the door. They would have been greatly appreciated on the climb up the mountain on the second day of the hunt though! The other 4 who are SWAT were in better shape than me, but I held my own. The only time I slowed them down was the last quarter of the way up the steep mountain. Ankle surgery and recovery, recovering from covid, throwing my back out, and the occasional sprinkling of laziness kept me from being in the shape I wanted to be in, but overall I was good to go. For the hunt itsself, we saw about 15 cow elks, a spike, and about 15 mule deer. We saw more fresh elk tracks and poop than I ever expected to, so the fact that we didn't shoot a bull was hard to stomach. The first morning, we were cow calling with an actual cow and then a bull joined in and was moving towards the group when another hunter shot it. The second morning we heard two elks bugling for quite a while, but couldn't get them to come closer with the cow call. Waiting so long to chase it might have been our biggest mistake of the hunt. The third morning we went back to the place we could hear the bugling given, well... the bugling..., the ridiculous number of tracks and the lack of other hunters we saw the second morning. We split up into two groups and hunted about 700 yards apart. The northern group was calling to a bull to their north and we were trying to work one to our south and it was going really well. There was a dirt road between us and a backwoods idiot drove up and shot a mule deer buck out of his truck (of course completely illegal) and that ended our morning hunt. We never heard the bulls again. We were all furious!! Nothing happened of note on the evening of the third night. Overall, we had an amazing time. I still can't get over the amount of wildlife and tracks we saw. On the bottom slope of the steep mountain we climbed, we saw more mule deer tracks than I've ever seen in one area in my life regardless of the type of animal. I wouldn't have believed someone if I hadn't seen it myself. We also found one shed antler. (I'm going to create a post a little later in the mule deer section about it as I have some questions.) The family that hosted us was amazing and the guys I met were all great. Sorry the post ended up being so long! [/QUOTE]
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