 Eating my bears last night, so that's a positive for it following me, which is also good, so everything else is just bonus from here. So this is camp where I moved. I share something with y'all, some knowledge I've obtained, and this is Surefire right here. Like a hundred percent, you know, I am a new elk hunter, but this is something you can take to the bank, and it's called the turd tap. The turd tap test method, that's when you know you're around elk. Every day I have found elk, and this is how I have done it. Basically what you're looking for when you go after elk is sign. What I've seen, what I've learned this week is that they pretty much just trample through the woods. They can be super silent at times, but when they are moving in a group, it's like a herd of cattle. There's a lot of poop on the ground, they eat a lot, they poop a lot, you know, they urinate on the ground, they're heavy, so they're making big hoof prints, they're knocking over plants and knocking down limbs. It's hard to tell the timing on that. When I get up to a certain elevation and I start seeing some poop, then I'll slow down, but then I'll just kind of follow that until I see, I'll just walk around the area until I see fresh dung, fresh poop. And the way you test it is you tap it with your foot. You know, everyone's stepped in poop before, around some cows, or maybe it's at home with your, you know, backyard with your dog. You step in a nice, fresh, slippery one and you know. As soon as you step in it, you're like, ugh, God, well, you can use that basic life knowledge up here in the mountains with these elk, and this has happened multiple times where I've gone up and I've just kind of, when I walk along, I just touch it with my boots to go up to it, you know. For example, we got some cattle out in this pasture, you know, this one that took a dump right here next to my tent, that one's real crusty. I can tap that and I can go, okay, yeah, that's really dry. That's pretty easy to tell and you really don't even have to tap that to look, you can just look at it and know it's dry. But when you get one that kind of looks fresh and then you tap your boot in it and then like green stuff comes out and it's just really squishy and maybe there's flies on it, then you know that probably happened in the last hour or so. And I've done it so many times up here now, I can get it dialed into, that was probably in the last 30 minutes. And when I was coming down the mountain today, I wanted to explore a new area and I did, I walked about a mile at the same elevation that I was seeing poop, locked into the poop, kept the same elevation and then I found a super fresh one as soon as I tapped my foot in it, elk busted. They busted out, it is so incredibly hard in these mountains that you can only see like 50, 60 yards. As soon as you find that fresh slippery poop, slow down, slow down because you're around elk. Take like 10, 20 steps, stop, listen, look around, see if you're seeing anything. The third tapping test, y'all, it is 100% sure fire, redneck science, but I'm telling you it works, it works out here. So that's what I'm going on. I'm going back up to the same area to my spike out tent camp and I've deduced by walking like a five mile radius that that is where the most fresh poop is, that's where I've seen the most elk. That's where I saw a herd of 20 elk last night, just way too many eyeballs, couldn't draw on them, but it's been amazing how much I've learned and experienced up here and that's what I wanted to do. So I've already considered this trip a major success, but really, realistically I have this evening and tomorrow morning to really get an elk down because it'll take me about a whole day to process the meat. So I'm going to spend the night up there again. I'm running low on GoPro batteries, I've only got like two or three left. I'm literally having to sleep with them inside of my sleeping bag just to keep them warm. I'm gonna eat me some fresh trout here and some taters, really get my energy up. Maybe make some coffee, super windy right now. Maybe catch a couple of cutthroat trout down here that I thought were a brook trout that I now know that are cutthroats, then I can keep them. We're gonna head back up the mountain, try to do it all over again. Coconut salmon, 100% worth fishing for. They fight hard, but they taste harder. So I pretty much have the same thing every day that I've, the chance I've been able to come back to camp and eat these. Y'all, I've never been anywhere this remote in my life. There's not a lick of cell phone service. You can forget about that. There's really no connection to the outside world except for my GPS. That allows me to send some satellite messages. That's it. Just black and white text. So having like a good, hot, cooked meal and fresh fish, which is for me a symbol of home, like just reminds me of family. Oh, it's so good. So good. Maybe one day I'll bring Steph and Amy up here and we'll all enjoy some of these trouts together. Cutthroat home. You know, just taking a little break from the elk, getting some trout. This thing's fight, really, really strong. Actually, that is, that's a different species there. Fishing action ended up with some sort of hybrid. It was like a brown cutthroat hybrid. It had spots all the way down, so I knew it wasn't a full cutthroat, but it did have those little orange pieces. So, I don't know, there's a lot of hybrids in here. And then I got a, a straight up cutthroat. So I'm going to clean him up and I'm going to add him to my trout aggregate to take home or I'll eat them while I'm here. Wind is crazy. Thurbo! So I was just looking back at the footage between a brown trout and a cutthroat trout. Brown trout's got spots all the way down, really beautiful fish. And then the cutthroat, much more orange. Like that was definitely what I was catching the other day. And it looks like a cross between the two because it has spots all the way down. It has that little orange, it says crimson slash on either side of their throat beneath the lower jaw. Well, my tent just decided to blow in. Oh, no! Stop! Holy, what's going on here? Holy cow, my tent's falling down. Hold it up my foot! Vrecious mountain winds coming in right now. What are we supposed to do here? This should probably be the thumbnail. Stopping the tent from falling with my leg. Look at that leg. That leg has been worked by the mountains, let me tell you. Oh, holding a good stretch here. Wow. Well, I just happened to have the camera in my hand. I was reviewing some footage and then the tent side blow over. I'm going to have to get out there and attach some supports on the outside. So this thing doesn't blow away. All right, all right, thank you Mother Nature. It's a cool adventure. It's always good. Good for the heart and soul. I'm going to love it. OK, crisis averted. I got out there, I drove the stakes back in. The problem is it's all rocks here. So I'm having to drive the stakes sideways into the ground. It's not the best hold that I put on. One support with rope on it. Hey, it's raining now. So boy, Colorado Mountains. It's a punch right in the teeth. It's beautiful. And at the same time, just like also dangerous. Got to have ourselves a steam cook before we head up on the mountain, y'all. One last taste of deliciousness, semi-civilization, base camp before we head up to Little Camp. I hope my tent is still there, y'all. It became a nasty storm. I had to restake my tent and put an extra rope brace on there. It was bad. It rained a lot. And I checked the forecast via my Garmin unit. And it's looking like rain's still in the forecast for the rest of the evening. So it's not really going to be pleasant. Hell, like I said, New Zealand. That was unpleasant the whole time. Wet. Never got dry. Sucking every last bit of warmth because it's going to be the 40s tonight. Bring a warm blanket. Here we are again, back at camp.