#12 2018 Elk Ch3 "Spike Camp"

For the third week of September we as a family had banked all our resources for me to have five full days to hunt. This was it- I really needed to make something happen this outing as getting me back up here again was not going to be easy for any of us. So as I'd complained earlier, I was over the miles long commute into the prime hunting areas and had indeed prepared this trip to pack a camp up and into the juice, and stay. It was the only realistic and responsible way that I could imagine being able to pack an elk out of this country this year. And frankly, I was giddy at the thought of posting up a camp deep in the guts of such a wild and rugged place.