Man, you aren't fooling around with the system. Nice.
Too bad, about the bird.

The hummingbird flew away just after the pic AV. It was in my shed trapped against a window. I scooped it up in my hat and let it go. Drumsticks looked to small

Nice Rufous hummingbird.

A load of gas can only mean one thing, road trip. I'm leaving for a fall hunt in the Franklin and McKenzie mountains, NWT, using our jet boats. We have 300 gallons of boat gas and tons of food, and no deadiine for return. My buddy has built a new trapline cabin so it the weather turns we can abandon tent camp and get under a roof. But the weather is looking good. The main goal is moose and mountain caribou and if lucky he'd like to take a dall sheep. We'll see how it goes. Finally some real bush time

Our port in the storm

Tis the season! Enjoy!

Pete

What an awesome trip Brian, not going to lie I'm a little(a lot) jealous!!! I know you will take all kinds of pics, can't wait to hear and see the stories. I guess I'll stick around here and chase our animals around, I know there will be one less elk hunter out here anyway lol

What a trip. I'm burnt out after driving 1300 km straight home in one shot last night. We spent 8 days on the rivers and it was a trip I won't soon forget. We went deep into the mountains, over 200 miles up the Redroot into places that just don't see visitors. For my friend, it's his home territory, and was his grandfathers before that. His knowledge of the river and game movements was phenominal

The hunt was successful and some beautiful big mountain caribou bulls were harvested. I'll add pictures and some stories tomorrow

This was a long trip and not just the 2800 km (1700 miles) I put on my truck. We did 714 km or 444 miles in our jet boats. We went 130 miles up the Redstone River after leaving the McKenzie River. On our way out we did 357 km or 222 miles in the jetboat in one day. And over half of that was in rapids so it was a long day and we ended up doing the last half hour in the dark as we came back to the village of Wrigley, I don't recommend it. Our boat route is the orange line on the map.

I watched a grizzly for several hours through the spotting scope at this location. It had taken over the caribou remains and was defending them against any ravens foolish enough to try and grab a bite. Way too far for decent picture but close enough through the scope.




My friends son took a nice bull at a hotspring located along the redstone. More about that hotspring later





I had to bask in his glory for a while too

food was good. We cooked on open fire the whole time



I brought fishing gear but ended up helping out with the hunt so didn't wet a line. I bought some nice whitefish from this elder at Kakisa lake though

In total four caribou were harvested. Two mature bulls the hot spring bull and then this one.




The other two caribou were young bulls. Floyd passed on several moose as he can harvest them closer to home and all year round while the caribou are harder to reach and more time sensitive. right now the herds are moving from summer grounds to rutting areas and winter habitat. We saw multiple caribou in small herds. Also Dall sheep ewes and lambs that were coming down to water. I saw at least 12 black bears but mostly along McKenzie River, plus wolves, grizzly, eagles, along the Redstone.

I was impressed with the meat handling the guys make sure to keep hair and dirt off of it

I wonder why they call it redstone river?

Looks like a great trip.

Pucker factor, entering the walled canyon. No turning back. Glad you are home.

That's an amazing journey! I hope you got lots of video so you can relive it many time down the road.
it would be hard to sleep missing one moment of what will be your Best hunt of this type ever!!

excellent pictures and it looks like a great time!

Good luck! That would be my dream hunt.