Well today marks the end of our 2012 Colorado
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!
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