 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome all back to the channel and a very special series in the Rocky Mountains, Hunting Elk. I'm here with my good buddy, John Thomas Earl Larkin. He's going to be hunting with me. We are also joined by the born and raised guys and the hushing guys. It's going to be a good week, man. I mean, I came up here last year. You gave me some tips, but I basically came up here alone and it was a big learning lesson. I was unsuccessful as far as getting an elk, but I was very successful learning and now I'm just thirsty for the knowledge. Born and raised, they reach out to me, they watch my videos and they said, dude, you need help. I was like, I will take your help. What do we need to do? So they said, let's go to the Rockies. We'll put you on some elk and show you how to bring them in. Dude, we've got some good teachers this week for sure. I know. We have some awesome teachers. So what we're about to do is take our first shot with the bow after traveling for over 1,000 miles. I think it was like 1,300 miles. We've traveled and we're going to see if the bow is on. I don't want to rock. Rockin' man, milk. I'm going to go ahead and say two. I was going to carry in four arrows. JT said you need to carry five. So if something epic happens, we'll just put it on record. JT made me carry five arrows. Like maybe I lose four and then the last one just comes in clutch. That was just a 20 pin. There you go. We're going to make it. We're going to be okay. 1,300 miles. She's still all right. The final moments before we go in. Got Trent here from Born and Raised. Just loading up. Could get Western, you never know. You could get Western out of here. A lot of grizzly attacks. Well, how much am I about to learn because, you know, last year it was pretty tough. I know you guys noticed that. I didn't notice anything. I think you did. Honestly, what I love about taking people is just, usually I learn just as much as you do. So it's one of those things where we do the same thing every single time. Like I was telling you earlier, you're going to get bored hearing a bugle every 20 seconds of the day until it actually works. I cannot wait. We're going to, hopefully tonight, hopefully we can get one going tonight. But yeah, no, it's just going to be the same old thing. But just being around new people, getting to meet new friends, man. That's what it's all about. Oh dude, it's hunting camp. It's awesome. It's going to be hunting camp. We're going to have a blast. I guarantee it. Well, so we're going to go in tonight. We're going to hike in and do a little bit of calling. Maybe try to get a couple bugles, get a direction going. That's it. Yeah. It's not going to be like, oh, well, if it's doable. We're not going to say, well, I get them tomorrow. There may not be tomorrow. Let's get him now. Tomorrow could be a whole new bull. Because these bulls, this time of year, it's real early. It's the first of season. And so they're moving a lot. It's not like, especially in terrain that we're hunting, they're not just going to stick right there. So we'll be moving a lot. And so if we get on them, we try to work them as soon as we get on them. And you know, if the wind's good, the wind's not good. That's going to be the only thing. That's what we're going to learn. Yeah. We're going to learn. Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to learn their channels, their channels, link down below. Morning Raised. I've watched a ton of their videos. They know what they're doing. Trust me. So they've got tons of videos educating anyone that wants to go alcony on how to do it. And they are legit. So we're about to go get in these woods and do some. We're going to have some assistance here today. The Baku. How do you say this, Casey? What? Baku. Baku? Baku. This is an electric bike. You pedal it, but you also have juice. It's awesome. Just watch this. This is a pack mule or a horse. Now you've got a two-wheeled electric bike. GoPro action update. 30 minutes in. Two wheels to two feet. We hit some bad rocks. Had to ditch the bikes. So me, Trent, JT, we're hoofing it right now. The other guys, Casey, the camera guys there on four-wheelers. One's on a four-wheeler, one's on a bike. And we're hoping that they're going to come back down here at some point and maybe get our packs or something. Pick us up. Dung. What kind of dung is that, Trent? Bear. Bear dung. This is going to be my first gasp, but I didn't want to look stupid. I've never, ever seen a black bear in here. There's always a first time. And we didn't get a bear tag. No bear tag. See ten of them. Probably see a number of them. That's how it goes. Trent's kind of bugling and stuff as we're going in. We're going to try to get that first beetle once we get to camp. I don't even know how far away it is. A long ass way. Five miles. Four miles. Eight miles. Probably somewhere around eight. Eight. Probably. Camp is anywhere we want it to be, right? That's true. We've got it right here. It's on our backs. This could be camp. We're here. We'll get up in there and we'll do some good here. All right. We're starting to get thick. We're almost at 10,000 feet. So this is about where we should start seeing it. It's starting to get good. We're going to get off the beaten path. Literally. We're going deep. I'm just a shuttle service at this point. It's like Uber. We'll pick you up. So how many? We got four dudes one. It's going to work. It's going to have to work. Four wheeler just showed up. So if you guys are wondering, bikes are chained up to a tree locked down. They're so heavy anyway. No one's going to take them. But we have this. Am I riding up front on the handlebars or what? The trail gets a little bumpy. It gets a little bit sketched. It gets a little bumpy. How far up there is it? Lots of things. We'll make it. This is what everybody wants to see. I'm going to hold up. Check it out. You want to touch GoPro's? Go for it. Touch. Dip touch. Boys, be careful. I just hope we don't have any mishaps. No packs. No bows. Get thrown. The thing that's going wrong is that the Excalibur takes a ditch right there in the back. Into the trip right there. No packing? Terrible. This might be a good time for me to work on my call. We're on a unit we can't hunt right now. I can get some lessons from Trent. You can tell me the ways. Little cow? Oh yeah. Hold it a little bit longer. Hold it a little bit longer. Unless you hang out with Trent. Get it. No, that was, I mean that was. Let's do one more. Let's do one more. That's going to call in any elk on this mountain. I promise you. Dicey, we might need to take some weight off. This mount? Yeah. You go first. Here, I'll tell you what. Just take a little weight off. This is where we're at, y'all. Now the goal is just try to get to our unit we can hunt in by dark. Close to the unit yet? I believe it. Start shooting, boys. Let's crack one off. Let's get him going. We're, um, we're a ways from where we want him to be. Like he's in. So it's camp going to be close to here tonight, you think? Yeah. Unless you want to hand up headlamp it. I'm taking my cooler. We're going. We just go up here ways. Get into our unit. Our unit's literally like right here. Just get to our unit, find a camp spot. It's the thinking time. Getting the game plan. So we're a little bit later getting up into our unit hiking in than we expected. We had a few issues. There's always issues along the way. You got to adapt and overcome. So that's what we're doing. Um, I think we're in a camps and we're close to here now that we're in the unit and we can start hunting and just work our way through, hunt our way through. Kind of what it sounds like. But I'm going to leave this to the experts. I'm learning. Yeah. We've got a couple minutes. We could get something going out there, but let's just get where we can hear. Set up shop. Have a great evening. Give her an angle. Give her an angle. Yeah. Great evening. We're doing it. Yeah. God feels good to be up here though. Yeah. We do have fishing poles just in case the trout decide to come out. But it's all about the arrow first before the hooks. Ninety-eight hundred. So yeah, we're going down. Just turn over there. Yeah, we're going to be dropping into all of those. There might be a couple of little cliffs in there. Yeah. Just kind of... This isn't on it. The first... It's just a bugle crack. It's big. It's big time. It's a big moment. It's a big moment. We've got to choose what I want to go with. Is this the reason? Life has way better than this moment. Which one is the yellow? The yellow? Committed. Committed. Yeah. Like me. Exactly. Hopefully. First deal of the year right here. For me anyway. There you go. Self jacked up. Can you remember? Keep it. Keep it. Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. Finish it. Sorry. Go ahead. A lot of pressure. No pressure. I'm not going to say it was top ten. And start with pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure. Really max the full amount. JT's going with the Chad Mendes. Yeah. The Bison Ranch measures. That's a trial run, isn't it? Yeah. I've never had this one. No, no. Dude, you... Can't go wrong. Oh, it gives you a good way to start the hot tip. Time to take them boots off. And head to bed. Wow. I just got the full blast of my flashlight here. You mean just a sec here. So we are going to tap it out for the night. We've got all of our tents lined up and everything. And there's nothing to do up here at night. Except, you know, just kind of get a game plan, talk a little bit. And then you just go to bed. Sleep with the mountain crickets. We're right at the edge of our unit. We're going to be hunting in the morning. And all those good guys. So we'll catch you up to speed in the AM. And hopefully get a few cracking off first thing. JT? I didn't hear anything except the sound of JT's little cow call. He had like a weird snore that sounds like a cow call. Wow. We are all set, ready to go. Last night was a little brisk. So it was good. My good buddy John Thomas Earl Larkin just came out of a hole doing the morning deeds. Coffee made you have to go poop. So you're ready now? I'm ready, dude. Yeah, let's go. From here on out, Beau is going in the hand. Backpacks are packed. Everybody is ready to go. We've got a lot of sign right here. So there's, we've got poop on the ground. We've got beds right here. Try saying they're two days old. And the wind's super swirly in this area. So generally morning thermals usually go down. It always pulls that cold air down. So, and in the evening it does the same thing. By the around that 10 o'clock hour or so, the thermals will change from that sun starting to heat up and it'll start pushing the thermals up. So we try to kind of generally, if you can, usually we're just wandering around aimlessly until we find a bugle and then we'll kind of really get things dialed in. Waiting on that first bugle. Yeah. So ready. Ready. Because people have been hunting here and you've seen like two days old sign. They're just going to be a couple of miles deep. Yeah, they're just pushing, but they could come in here last night, you know, and refeed in here. You know, so it's just this crap shoot because they're getting, you know, they're just doing their thing. Just hiking around doing their thing. Just keep going until we, until we get one. Got some really good stuff down over here. Those like openings you're talking about. Okay. Is this a good feeding time or do they start laying down? They're just moving right now. So this is like a bedding area. You see all this where they've been bedding. It's a completely tall grass bedding. Yeah. And like, that's why I go so careful through that grass because sometimes it'll be like a two foot hole and just throw you gotta be careful. Let's just keep kind of just going this way. I'm going this way. I know the wind's tired. It's terrible, but we just got to right now just hunt. I'm in the mood. 8 a.m. right now. We're out of water. Completely out. So using a filter bag. Get some of that juice. Sweeten up and do. I've drank so much water up here this week. The altitude just sucks it right out of you. And since we're going to be living off our backs for about four days, we have to get our water. So I've never used this system before. This is the sort of squeeze, but it goes on the filter. And then you squeeze it in your drink bottle. So it's just not a good flow. It's going to take a minute. Fresh clean water. That was a 32 ounce pouch. I had to fill this thing up twice with that bag to get it to the top. Hopefully that'll last me the rest of the day. Have enough to cook with and all that. Maybe not though. We're sucking down a lot of water out here. But it's time to go play with the elk again. Can sometimes I can't. So what gets the UBCM piss on his face or whatever? Or a rake of tree or something that I can't hear. So if there's something that I'm doing that is like, okay, keep doing that. It's working. So this is cow. I'll do more cow calls. I'll do more bugles. So it's one of those things where it's like this dance that takes place. And he's just like trigger responses. So like see the three cow calls, if you guys move up, the bull just kind of keeps on kind of hanging up and not coming in. And you guys are going to move up just three quick. You know what I mean? Yes, the same tone. Do you think it was that bull that came in and now he gets the same satellite bull? For a beginner, that's not terrible. Trying to get some style points going on. Yeah. Casey has to use the multi-colored so he doesn't go straight blackface. Looking pretty good. Neck and chin. Neck and chin. Oh, we're going full neck? Yeah. Do you want to kill another one? Yeah. And there's that. God, you look like a frog, man. That's what you want. Anybody? He's not curvy. I got brown, too. I'm just going to wait and copy all day long. Not really sure the wind was good. We got distracted or, I don't know, something threw him off. He was close. It was probably 150 yards away. So, head on out. Blow it up. Blow it? Yeah. Okay, folks at home. Little midday update here. It's two o'clock. We have been treading through and calling for miles. We've had three elk bugles, like three identifiable elk. Three attempts, unsuccessful. And according to Trent, here up in Colorado, it's normally like an eight count. So, once you get to like seven, the next one, the next attempt is going to be the deal. But something that is really cool that we have just discovered is that there are brook trout in some of these streams that are leading into a lake that's out here. If you watched my videos last year, I tried to fish some remote lakes. I had a big lake that I caught a lot of fish out of, but I tried to go up into the mountains, higher elevation, catch some fish up there. And none of them had fish, or at least none that I could see. And we're visually starting to see fish. Let me show you guys what's going on. So, we just came down about a thousand feet from where we were elk hunting. And we've got a stream right here. And there's some little brook trout where we first showed up in the stream. This is going to lead out into the lake. And I think we can keep these if they're under eight inches. But there's also other species up there. There's cutthroats. There's probably some browns. And then we can make those into some tasty treats. I was going to say crispies. Not golden crispies, but manual. It's so good to just live off your back, I got to say. It feels good. Up here, born and raised, hushin. These guys are linked down below if you want to check them out. They do this a lot more than I do. But there's a reason they do it. They're addicted and it is addicting. So I brought my fly rod. We are going to go to the lake. But we're going to hunt until we get there. So that might be the next episode. Hopefully there's an elk in between that. But we'll see. Wish us luck.