 Good day everybody. Welcome back. Glad you were here to join me in my journey today elk hunting All day in the mountains So Sun's just starting to come up right now and we're gonna make ourselves a little breakfast get fueled up We're gonna burn a ton of calories today. We're gonna pack light Try to pack light. We're going into the wild beyond So I saw elk yesterday Just above my camp here All the way up top and then a little bit over and I'm gonna explore over this mountain and a little bit over as well today I'm gonna make a big loop Around and see if I can run into them yesterday. I didn't hunt in the afternoon. So I'm interested to see how the elk activity is in the afternoon about eight to Ten thirty they seem to be moving pretty good. And then I think they laid up midday I saw one mountain range where they were really trucking up there and it was high I'm gonna attempt to stay up there all day as long as I can stand it. Let's make ourselves a good hearty breakfast and Let's explore nature and let's go get an elk with a bow We've started our ascent You know, we are not even close. We're like an eighth of the way and where we're gonna be into Starting to see sign and then we're gonna explore even deeper In a couple of areas that I've looked at on the map. They look like open grazing areas so I'm gonna sit on those really watch those but Look at that, y'all A lot of this trekking up here is just like walking over big trees I've got a really nice path right now to go up. It's not too bad. So it's a good morning. Good exercise Let's go find them though in the distance. So There's some more elk I'm not sure what happened with that that last cow. She had at least one spike following her I ran over and got a position. I felt so confident. I broke out the big camera And I was at least gonna get you know some footage Just kind of see what they do. I thought they would come into this low-lying area down here in feed She was just getting pushed by that by that spike and He pushed her you pushed her down out of range. Oh, if I should chase them. I've tried chasing them multiple occasions did it this morning Got busted In fact, that could have been the same elk Because I spooked a spike when I first got up there and then there was a cow and something else I couldn't really couldn't tell It looks like that same small group, but the thermals have kicked in now The thermal winds like basically what happens is the cold air cold air sinks so in the mornings the the winds pushed down and When the air heats up It starts to start to rise so it's just pushing up the mountain right now So it's coming into my face as I'm looking down So that's good if I want to just stay high and look down You just want to get a visual my position here. I think I'm definitely gonna come hunt here this evening Because I know you guys can't see anything, but this is like this is actually a pretty clear view considering There's like a little shelf down there, and that's that that elevation that they like There's a lot of stuff growing. I'm just above it and behind me. I've got Well just above that knoll there. There's like heavy heavy Rocks up there. So I think I'm gonna hike back up that way and Look at the wall or for a minute and just keep pushing Until I see a herd. I don't know. I feel like the way to kill them is just sit there Because all the dry broken sticks, I mean they just hear you and they take off Even if you have the wind right It's either that or just call one in and I'm not good at calling and they're not really responsive right now So I think I can get it done I've still got a couple more days, but I'm gonna hunt very hard today Continuing the game plan Burn some calories eat some food. Let's go find some more elk. I'm about as high as I'm gonna go right now I think I'm gonna go back to the direction where I spooked those elk. I sat at the all-out the altitude Set at the wall over Probably 10 20 minutes and just I don't know. I'll probably sit there this evening But for right now, I'm gonna kind of stay at this elevation and walk right there Sitting here talking to the camera, and I'm up high which is good. I'm gonna work my way background They might get end up going to the wall or So thick down there. I can't see anything. I think I'm up just too high Way up here Lightheaded this is high y'all look at it Snow on the mountains over there look behind me There's not much left to go Well folks Trying my darndest out here to get an elk But I'm going back and forth on this ridge Looking down found really fresh scat really fresh prints And if I just go in there deep they're gonna bust me So I need to wait for them to start moving again. I'm really exhausted. I mean this is this is part of elk hunting right here but No stranger to it after my New Zealand hunt. I feel like I can handle any any kind of hunt in North America really but We got to get ourselves some food I'm drained. I have a headache Which means I'm probably dehydrated as well I already drank a bottle of water and this is a leader that I have left But I've also been drinking this is from the creek water that I filtered And I'm gonna use some of that to cook up the old mountain house Today we got oh, we got a little beef strobe enough a little hot meal up here every day about this time The weather has changed as well like it gets cloudy and There's some little bit of rain that comes in So these old mountain houses Pretty convenient little deal And I'm not bad Not the worst thing I've ever had Make sure you take your little Little drying agent out and what we need to do is heat up some water and put it in there So this is a little portable propane tank, and then I've got this little kit right here Which allows me to set up a burner off of the Off the thing they make ones that go right on top of here, but I Chose to get this one because I can I don't know I can move around a little bit more see here Hope this baby fires up. I haven't used it since New Zealand That's on a little splurge there. Yeah, it's really cold when it comes out Geez Sorry about that. I got this tiny little tripod Trying to make it work. Okay She starts. This is my little cooking kit that I carry and it's got all those 10 top of my bag for our water in our titanium cup Gotta make sure the ground is flat Burn my fingers even stopping and cooking is a lot of work up here Boiling hot water has been applied to the mountain house beef stroganoff meal And now we just got to wait like 10 minutes look at these happy folks right here just enjoying the mountains You know they don't look like mosquitoes are binding them flies are buzzing around their heads They're just enjoying the mountain ass the mountain house That they've built. I don't know they do look happy though. One of the things that catches you off guard up here is the amount of flies They're everywhere. So I've got my bags in here somewhere but basically I have these these sacks that prevent the meat from spoiling and prevents the flies from landing on it and laying eggs as soon as I Get an animal on the ground. I'll have to Start cutting it up put it in bags and then hang it up and just keep coming back like Y'all If I do get one up here It's gonna take me at least a whole day Just to get all the meat down like I really need to get one today or tomorrow And that way I'll have an entire Day to really process the meat and get it out of here. It's fine at night It's basically freezing temperatures, but you know during the day It's okay as long as the flies don't land on it and lay eggs and the flies go totally away at night I would stay a little bit longer. I've got to get back in a few days. I have a doctor's appointment 100% need to go Just sitting up here in the altitude having a headache right now. It just reminds me. I still have a brain tumor growing in my Head. I'm just rambling now. I'm gonna eat this stroganoff And Just kind of hang out for a little bit rest to be honest with you And then I'm gonna get a game playing together. I spotted like a pond on the map I might go check out see if there's any elk activity midday do some calling over there. It's like two miles away Other than that, thanks for being here. You're my only form of like Contact right now with any other human beings Besides my GPS I guess I could text on that But Yeah, straight up here alone in the woods With the elk. I mean who doesn't just love to see big bird of prey Screaming over the mountains why they eat their mountain house. I enjoy that if I can only tap the Rockies With some silver bullets right now or at least to end the day Let's say my Rocky Mountain experience would be fulfilled complete Besides the elk Let's be serious That's why we're up here killing ourselves All right flies get away from my stroge ease That's a game changer. It's just nice to have Just a warm meal while you're trucking up here burning tons of calories and Then you just get a nice warm meal picks you up Makes you feel like you're back at regular altitudes By the way, if you hear that thing over there, I have these crazy grasshoppers That sound like firecrackers. Okay. We need these noodles and dehydrated beef And we're gonna keep trekking where to I don't know in search of elk Day two, let's keep going You saw those there was a dough that busted me and That fawn that I saw was a mule deer fawn This big buck is he's a gigantic ant or feeding away. I can't shoot him Unfortunately, he's way too far anyways, but I'd love to make a stalk on him. He's absolute brute Look at all this bright green moss It's like it's glowing This is the highest I've ever been Absolutely. Hi, it's playing with my head. Mm-hmm. I Really want to get down from this height Well, it ain't ever but it's definitely the Rocky Please don't pay any crevasses