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[gkainz]

Well, after 10 days in the woods with the highest tech piece of electronic gear being my generator (well, ok... there was spotty cell phone service this year...and I did carry my gps with me) I'm back on the forums. I was greeted with 6 pages of new posts here and tons of backlog emails on the client's issues list, as well as the pages of emails pimping Viagra, Rolexes, refinancing, vitamins, etc... So, I'm just going to have to click "mark all read" and move on!

For those interested in the status of the mental health week, I logged 50 miles (felt like it, at least) of mountain hiking, numerous campfires, beers and b/s sessions, a couple of dozen beautiful mountain brookies caught and released, and 2 elk and 1 deer in the freezer. Oh yeah, came back 5 lbs lighter than when I left, in spite of the camp cook doing their darnest to load up the calories!

 

[ejensen]

Where did you go, Greg?

 

[Dave Krall CFII]

Well, after 10 days in the woods with the highest tech piece of electronic gear being my generator (well, ok... there was spotty cell phone service this year...and I did carry my gps with me) I'm back on the forums. I was greeted with 6 pages of new posts here and tons of backlog emails on the client's issues list, as well as the pages of emails pimping Viagra, Rolexes, refinancing, vitamins, etc... So, I'm just going to have to click "mark all read" and move on!

For those interested in the status of the mental health week, I logged 50 miles (felt like it, at least) of mountain hiking, numerous campfires, beers and b/s sessions, a couple of dozen beautiful mountain brookies caught and released, and 2 elk and 1 deer in the freezer. Oh yeah, came back 5 lbs lighter than when I left, in spite of the camp cook doing their darnest to load up the calories!

How big were the racks and/or elk/deer ?
Sounds great.
All I found on the beach was a dead stingray.

 

[gkainz]

Buffalo Park or to make it aviation based (even tho I drove), 300° at 20nm from Kremmling VOR

We got 2 cow elk and a small buck mule deer - the deer population seems to have declined again in this area. We've taken a few very nice bucks from this area. Saw at least half a dozen bull elk of 6 point or better taken this season - very nice bulls.

 

[Dave Krall CFII]

Buffalo Park or to make it aviation based (even tho I drove), 300° at 20nm from Kremmling VOR

We got 2 cow elk and a small buck mule deer - the deer population seems to have declined again in this area. We've taken a few very nice bucks from this area. Saw at least half a dozen bull elk of 6 point or better taken this season - very nice bulls.

Those are usually much better eating anyway...

 

[ejensen]

Buffalo Park or to make it aviation based (even tho I drove), 300° at 20nm from Kremmling VOR

Know it well. I worked out of the Kremmling Forest Service office (now closed) for 5 years. Drove Red Dirt road several times a week. Did lots of work rehabbing the old timber sales. I need to get back some time and see how the plantings, thinnings, etc are doing. Also did hunter patrols. You weren't there 1977-82 were you.

Congrats on a successful week.

 

[Gary]

Buffalo Park or to make it aviation based (even tho I drove), 300° at 20nm from Kremmling VOR.

Cool! I did a mine closure 12 miles north of Walden. Spent about six weeks spread out over a year up there. Loved the Grand Lake area and Rocky Mtn. Park. Never made it to Kremmling but did make it to Granby a few times. I really enjoyed the country. A lot different than what we see out here in the east - you have real mountains! My wife would move there in a minute, but not much demand for hazardous waste remediation experts.

Gary

 

[gkainz]

Know it well. I worked out of the Kremmling Forest Service office (now closed) for 5 years. Drove Red Dirt road several times a week. Did lots of work rehabbing the old timber sales. I need to get back some time and see how the plantings, thinnings, etc are doing. Also did hunter patrols. You weren't there 1977-82 were you.

Congrats on a successful week.

Thanks! Nope, I didn't start hunting there until '90, but my hunting partner started hunting there in '64, so he would have been around then...I think the statute of limitations has run out on anything that may have gone on then...

You wouldn't believe (well, yes, I guess you would believe it) but I am astounded at the regrowth in the last 15 years in areas that were logged. The new growth in some areas is so thick that there's no way to get thru it. Doesn't look like there's been any thinning of the clear cut areas that were re-seeded, but there was more logging going on a couple of years ago near Buffalo Park. It could use more cutting, in my opinion.

I didn't realize the Steamboat fire a couple of years ago (or last year?) was on Red Dirt Road just a few miles north of Buffalo Park - from what I could see from the road, looks like it was a pretty big burn.

Cool! I did a mine closure 12 miles north of Walden. Spent about six weeks spread out over a year up there. Loved the Grand Lake area and Rocky Mtn. Park. Never made it to Kremmling but did make it to Granby a few times. I really enjoyed the country. A lot different than what we see out here in the east - you have real mountains! My wife would move there in a minute, but not much demand for hazardous waste remediation experts.

Gary

Well, I'm not so sure of that...there's a lot of mines that were closed or abandoned that continue to leach some bad bad stuff into the waters and soils around here - finding someone to pay for remediation might be another story, tho. Since Rocky Flats closure, the job market in that specialty around here has dried up considerably.

 

[Ghery]

Sounds like you had good hunting. The only deer I've ever gotten was during the muzzleloading season in Colorado back in 1982. West of Montrose. Nice 4 point (western count) Mule Deer.

Now, what if you ran into something like these pictures? They're from our safari in Kruger National Park a week or so ago.

 

[Anthony]

Greg. Sounds like a great trip! Mmmmm, Elk burgers.

 

[Everskyward]

My wife would move there in a minute, but not much demand for hazardous waste remediation experts.

There's always Summitville, or is that cleaned up by now?

 

[gkainz]

Greg. Sounds like a great trip! Mmmmm, Elk burgers.

We never did get that hangar bbq going this summer, did we?