I see you were't paying attention in knitting class...

The weather is not treating you to well, good luck on the hunt.

Tundra - I should have brought one of those Icelandic girls home - they really knit up a storm

I woke up to this scene this morning. It won't last but it's definitely a heads-up, winter is coming

Would love to see some of that are way!

I will say, you guys have a (set) staying out in areas like that with Grizzly's around. Hats off to ya. I guess when you have grown up living in an area with them it just seems like another day, but you know you have to be aware. Anyways, hope all up there have a good season and come home safe.

I've been zeroing in the new Bow and getting ready to go after an elk. They should cut loose after this weather breaks. I found a fresh wallow last week and set up a trail cam and a blind. Now for some time and patience to sit in it.

I just received my new Alaska #9's, thanks AK, looking good.

Kusko's post on stove pipes got me thinking about my own cabin project from last winter. I've now spent time out at the cabin over the summer and am pleased with the results. I've had no movement and doors and windows aren't binding, always a good sign.

The location was key as I built on a rocky point which is well drained. I made sure I had lots of pressure treated posts to share the cabin load down to the ground. The posts are sitting on a multi-layer of shingles that I placed on the ground. The shingles last for decades before breaking down and keep the bottom of my posts drier. I've used sections of rolled roofing as well. It also makes a good ground cover under cabins and helps keep mice away as there is no organic growth.

I sheathed the underside of the floor joists with 3/8" plywood, insulated floor cavity, sheathed floor from top. The cabin has been totally mice proof which is essential for me as these line cabins can be vacant for months at a time. It's tough to make a log cabin moose proof I find.

I still have to finish my interior and look forward to getting some of that done while out hunting. Pine (beetle killed) wall panelling, laminate floor, and some kitchen cabinets, bathroom/shower stall. Then call it home.

I've spent a few days kicking around chasing elk but our snow storm was followed up by hot weather, elk cooled off. I'm heading up a major river with a buddy in his jetboat on the 25th for a tent camp elk hunt. I had a buddy from Mexico return for a visit, he came to hunt camp last year and fell in love with the bush. This year he brought his family to experience it. It is a humbling experience to see the bush through their eyes, they are in awe of what we have here.






I have a few days so I'm going to concentrate of getting traps ready. I try to touch my 120's up with what ever spray paint I have kicking around. Tune the footholds, make some snares, and add chain to those new #9's I got from AK.

So are we….

Brent

A few years ago I had a situation at my cabins. A guy "John" was out there, who was the brother-in-law of one of my oldest friends. My buddy hated his guts but had been forced to spend time with him, so brought him out to my cabins to hunt. As we sat around playing dice things got ugly, and a pistol was pulled by John, and I had to cool things down fast. But it was obvious this guy was a loose cannon.

John's journey came to a sudden conclusion last night.

www.therockymountaingoat.com/2014/09/kinbasket-squatter-killed-in-shoot-out-with-police/

Was reading about this yesterday. One of our retired trappers has a cabin on the other side of Kinbasket Lake and now owned by his family. Thought this may be the cabin but now I understand it is on the road access side of the Lake. I guess he was a bad dude by the sounds of it. Not someone we needed out in the wilderness.

Sounds like he is where he belongs now.

Amen.

While out scouting for elk yesterday I came upon a bear den. I seem to find one every couple of years, usually in some knarly spot, just like this one. Den goes in about 7' and is about 3' high and 8' wide on the backside. It's located at the base of a steep hillside and the entrance faces east. There was a spruce tree about 20' away that had one side rubbed off, must be its scratching tree.

Predators seem to be doing ok. Bear - wolf - and elk tracks all in great abundance

I headed upriver today with a buddy to pre-haul some gear to elk camp






We stopped to pick up some coal from a seam along the river bank

What is making your photos so small? Like the larger ones better. I am getting old . ;0)

Slow upload Len couldn't get them to load so reduced. Elk are off to slow rut this season,too warm. Cold on Friday so hoping
For a cooler week while out hunting. Still using the Kifaru Len, which you turned me on too. But I ripped one of them last winter with heavy snow load. Is it possible to repair them do you know.

I also have been trying to buy a couple of the new Mokai kayaks which wolverine bait introduced me too on here. If I ran my businesses like that crew I'd be broke. Crap service and attitude. They promised me delivery on three different dates this year and basically told me to get stuffed when couldn't I asked for a firm date. I'm looking for a used one now.

I'm just heading out the door for my one week elk hunt. The venerable Wapiti Queen, my buddies boat, awaits me. This old girl has hauled so much game over the years it should be called the butcher boat. Here's hoping we get some meat for the winter.

Enjoy the fall

She looks like a work horse. Good luck on the elk!