 It's starting to snow right now. I'm not used to this, but really sucky part about the snow is it dampens sound. So, fueling just doesn't go very far. Here pretty soon I slept in this puffy right here. Full-blown puffy system. I got some comfy in here. I slept shoulder to shoulder. I didn't, I got, I had nothing to do with that stash last night, don't worry. We spooned a little. Got a little clink there. Both just in our puffy's dude is starting to snow right now. These new boots, they did really well. They're pretty much frozen right now, but waterproofness did really well and kind of frozen. So that's what we're drinking and making our meals with, but I'm going to set this by the fire. Rough go, but we're still trying. So everybody's tense. Hey, Trent. It's snowing. It's snowing. It's like Christmas. What do you think, bud? Last time I got snowed on. It was one of the toughest days of my life. Oh really? Yeah. Oh no, let's not back it up with that. No, I feel better about this one. I'm just worried about hearing bugles. Yeah, I know. Sound. Sound just doesn't travel that far in this. Did you hear anything? Like 45 minutes ago. You think? I was just waking up. It was really a high pitch. I'm not 100%. Could have been, could have been not. This is interesting. Thanks for the fire, brother. Yeah, I thought I'd get a fire going. Everybody's. Get a little breakfast. Yeah. Oh, this is great. And it's a good way to start the day with a fire, a little breakfast. Get the spirits high. I like that. Let's go shoot a nuke. Track some blood and you still... Cancel the wedding. Did I say that out loud? That was out loud. Sorry, man. Sorry for the old story. That's why I have to miss your wedding. The other, if we go this way. So this is the way we came yesterday. We came up here and then we cut across. And this is where we got on all those tracks. And I had marked this two years ago and marked it in bedding area. It's decent through this flower here for a half mile, but then you see those lines get real tight. That's that steep thing right there. We don't want to go in there, but if you go over and around, it's really, really steep here. But this side is bench, bench, bench, bench, bench. All the way down and then there's a force fire. That's where that old burn is. Four years ago. Bench, bench, bench, flats all through here. And then if you hiked all the way out, then we'd be at the trucks. The big thing is we don't want to get in the game. This is a marshy swelps. It's terrible. Not goodness. It's terrible. And then we'd have to come out here and there's the trucks. And I've never seen any elk down in that marshy stuff. It's all moose, sorry moose. I really think that if we find elk, they're gonna be up there, way over there, or right here. So, those are the options. Go that way. We chose our spot. There you go. And raised tradition, but I'm just going for it. I guess there's a cruiser. Why do they have so steep? Why would you want to walk around, freeze your toes off, burn 4,000 calories? Why would you want to do that? I thought we were the only ones. I know. I'm still under the assumption I painted my face for an actual elk. Yeah, I painted it too. Did you shave your legs for that? I mean, my chest hurt. I thought I heard one that way. Like something way off. I don't know, I feel like we're surrounded. Hit these benches all the way down a mile. I'm gonna use the hunters as a satellite bowl. It's my plan, and we'll cut in front of them. Gentlemanly like. It's 3D elk chest that has to be played on public land. Can I draw my gun? It'll get the hunters away from us. Something has to be done. And if there's a possibility with the hunters going away from us, they will drive the elk to us. Makes every bit of sense. What's a forest pup? Look it up. About a... Flare, I gotta tell you right now, Rackley is a really, really good friend. Leaving the elk woods to make it to your wedding. He loves you. We've got four hard hours. We could get a magic bugle. Then Flare's out. In which case, Flare won't. Flare, I'm just gonna let you know right now. If there's a bugle at four o'clock, and it's a hot one, I may have to dip. So there is that. It's better in the snow. We can follow the tracks to the bedding area. Longer legs than we do. I think they're gonna head down to the swamps. Really judging on where they were. Pretty cool. Leave his comfortable spot. Let's just see what he does, you know? If we can keep this wind, we're gonna be seeing him straight out. Really far away from the truck. We're seven or eight miles out of here. I've gotta make a wedding. So I'm heading to Outlaw. I probably won't get there like the wee hours of the morning. And then get dressed up and go to a wedding. Why do you guys have to get married in September? I'm not here trying to get on bulls, man. Anyway, I love you guys, though. Outlaw, Flare, and all you guys for staying tuned with me and all this. This is really hard. But first we gotta make it back to the, and we still have a chance of getting on a bull. 2D fluities, we'll see. And I'm pretty bully to me. Yeah. Good evening right now, Steve. There's some chuckle shaming on. I feel like a chuckle shamer. A chuckle shamer. Let him have it again, Trevor. I don't know. Yeah, come out there a little bit. And a chuckle shamer. Was he brought side? Yeah. He was just right. He got him in between two trees. He wouldn't stop the first year. No, he wouldn't stop. I was freaked out. He was trying to stop him. He just, as loud as you can. He went just down underneath. Constable snowstorm coming in. We've been sitting here about 40 minutes. We've been reviewing the footage. Sure, something weird happened because the sound of it sounded like going into the cavity. But the air was sticking out quite a ways. We got to make a move here. We got a four-wheeler trail around here. We don't want the elk to bump. And we got snow coming. This is pretty epic. I hope this comes together. Come on, baby. If he was strong enough to jump the fence, he might live, I don't know, starting to rain right now too, which our blood is going to wash away. I'm in a good mood right now. We're in a race, I think this is eight days. Eight days? Yeah, we had a little lull on the storm there. We had a little lull, storm day. With Trent, Trevor, Steve. I can't say enough about these guys. They know elk hunting probably better than I know bass fishing. They've been doing it since they were little kids. Literally, that's how the name applies. It was a tough journey. We got to the very end. Thought everything was going to be magical and come together. It was magical. It was. But, you know, made a decent shot. We thought it might have been a little in the shoulder. We're not sure. It's one of those mysteries we don't really know. We had really good blood at first, clogged up, you guys have been on it a ton of months seeing this, so you know how it goes. But I'd be lying if I told you it wasn't an emotional thing for me because it's always hard losing an animal, especially something like this where you're working so hard on an elk and take so much effort in these tough conditions that came in and we lost blood trail, rain came in and got away. Emotional thing for all of us. It is. I mean, it was, man. Nobody likes to see that. But to dwell on that would be, I think, a mistake. I mean, it's just like let's think about all the stuff that we've learned as we've grown as friends and stuff. It's been awesome. Spending time in the woods with guys like this. It is a bond, for sure. I would encourage you guys, if you have hunting buddies or just friends that you wanna get a closer bond with, go out in the woods, spend some time in the woods camping together. It is awesome. You really learn more about each other and it's something special. So I had a nice bottle of bourbon that we were gonna celebrate with but I think I'm gonna write a message on that bottle for the next time. Later date. Later date and inspirational message. So these guys are linked down below. Go subscribe to them. They're awesome people. They make awesome content and they work their butts off bringing you guys the best elk education and hunting education you can possibly get. I watched a ton of their videos before and it's been a huge learning experience. Thank you. I dipped my toe in it last year. I wanted to dip my toe. You guys watched my video. I kind of saw that. This year we're like, we're full on deep. For real. We did over 50 miles. We did over 50 miles on our feet. 50 miles so it's, wow. We're just getting rained on. It's freezing out here. Elk hunting is tough. I think it's easy. It is not but it's definitely worth it and I encourage you guys to go do it. Watch their videos. 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