Google + Review

How Are We Doing? Leave Us A Google Review!

The Gannett Ridge is committed to  providing the best service we possible can.   Let us know how we are doing by submitting a Google review!
  
Don’t Know how to Google Review?  Here’s a guide:

How to Review Gannett Ridge in Google

Step 1) Go to our Google Places page.
To leave a Google review, you will first go to the Google Places page of the Gannett Ridge.  You can do this by searching for the business’ name in Google and the city it is located in. Within our listing(s) you should see a link to “Write a Review”. Click that link.


Step 2) Signing into Google to leave your review
Next, you will be taken to a sign in screen for a Google account. If you have a Google account (or Gmail account), sign in and you will be able to leave a review, otherwise you will need to create a Google account.


Step 3) Go back to the Gannett Ridge review page in Google
It should be as easy as hitting the “back” button on your web browser, but if all else fails, just for us in Google again.  Hit the “Write a Review Button” again.


Step 4) Create a nickname
Now when you click the review button you will be taken to somewhere where you can write a review. If this is the first Google review you will be writing, you will need to create a nickname for yourself. You do this by using your mouse to select the number of stars to give us a review. When you select a star value, it will open a box inviting you to set up your review nickname.


When the box appears you will select “Get Started and a new window or tab will appear. Here you are going to add a nickname for yourself and, if you choose, you have the option to add a picture as well.

When finished, it will take you to a new tab and invite you to review local restaurants—just close this tab to go back to the review you originally started to write.

Step 5) Provide your review


Once you have rated the company by assigning them “stars” and written your review, you simply publish it by clicking the “Publish” button in the lower left side of the review box and you are done. Now that you’re signed up, it will be much easier to leave a review next time.
We really appreciate you taking your time to do this. Thank you so much.

Atkinson Expeditions Live Hunt!

We have teamed up with one of the best in the business Atkinson Expeditions to help bring you an exciting live eastern Colorado Antelope hunt. Starting on Oct. 8th Kendra will be hunting eastern Colorado for Antelope.

I you want to see some examples of the Huge Antelope that Wes and team have put on the ground over the years visit Atkinson Expeditions Antelope Trophy Room.

We also just received this pictures of a HUGE buck taken by the Atkinson Expeditions Team this year.

Also here are some trail camera pictures of the waterhole that Kendra will be hunting. (This is a Rifle tag so she may pick up the rifle this year with all of the rain we have been having lately)

Last day of 2012 Colorado Elk Season

Well today marks the end of our 2012 Colorado archery elk season.

 It has been a very long time since Josh and I didn't have at least one of us fill an elk tag and honestly we have been spoiled over the years. At the same time I can't remember a year where we have worked as hard. We were lucky enough to spend time in some of the most beautiful and rugged country North America has to offer. We had countless close opportunities and even passed a few opportunities to fill our tags early in the season holding out for a trophy. Overall I have never had such a run of just poor luck from fog and rain to swirling winds and bad timing with other hunters as this year but at the same time that is western public land hunting. The good the bad and the ugly of it.

Throughout the entire season Sam was there dragging along a camera heavy pack doing his best to capture the journey. And even though we never ended up with the Trophy photos/video we were working so hard for Sam was able to capture the journey in an amazing way. Throughout never complaining and always staying positive and for that I can’t thank Sam enough.

But rest assured our 2012 season is far from over with Wyoming and Colorado deer hunts plus some journeys back flatlands of South Dakota and Kansas to relax and just sit in a tree or two and wait for a deer to make a mistake. There are many more tags to fill and days left in the field this year.

With the end of elk season we come to a bitter sweet ending of our true high country hunts for the season. Sweet because physically everything just got easier for the rest of the year by 10x it’s all a walk in the park from now on! Bitter because there is no more rewarding and chalanging place to hunt.

There is something that keeps you going back to the backcountry there is a truth and a prospective that hunting the backcountry brings. There are few better places to find yourself, test your limits, resolve and determination. Hunting the backcountry is not for the easily dissuaded, there are no short cuts and nothing is given that is not earned. To love the backcountry is to love the challenge and to embrace some of the most unforgiving and unchanged land there is. As people we forget how truly easy our lives have become, we have a habit of making luxuries into necessities.  Sometimes is takes the brutal unforgiving beauty of the mountains to bring back prospective.

Until next year! Bring on the easy hunts!

Photo of the Day 36

Wish we would have had a run in with the bull that made this rub!  Pretty crazy how big this tree is and how deep that rub is.  However, archery season for elk just didn't quite pan out this year.  Bring on 2013!

Photo of the Day 35

Anyone else like camping on top of the world?  When I get a chance I'll sit down and write up the full story about this hunt but here is just a little preview.  On the 6th day of our trip we glassed a big herd of elk in a basin that had to be at least 4 miles away.  Tyler thought there was a trail that was a bit shorter to get in over the top so we packed up our camp and hike all the way back to the truck.  After heading in to town and having a super healthy meal of Wendy's, we found out that the trail we thought was shorter actually would have been close to 10 miles.
Then the punishment began.  We ended up hiking 1800 vertical in just over an hour and twenty minutes just to find another valley between us and the elk.  Exhausted, we set up camp for the night at 12,000 ft.  The next morning we made a play on the herd and came about as close as you can without hauling meat out.
Anyway, the Big Agnes Copper Spur 4 worked awesome even in a rain storm that night.  We also learned a valuable lesson.  No Baconator if you plan to hike even a little.

Photo of the Day 34

You'll have to excuse the pause in the photos of the day.  When hunting season starts it is hard to focus on much more than that!  Here is a picture from our first trip of the year.  This one is of Tyler Matthews on the edge of what we named Narnia (too far to walk to, but we still managed to get there twice).  Amazing how big the country is up there.  Shown in the picture is tyler in his Sitka Core Long Sleeve and Sitka Cap.