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Wilderness trapping? #7845329
04/14/23 02:16 PM
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Curious as to how many actually do "wilderness trapping" where you are out for several days and nights where you are in either a remote, cabin/ lean to shelter or tent?
Reason being making plans on doing above mentioned outing for next season


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Re: Wilderness trapping? [Re: Jingles] #7845343
04/14/23 03:33 PM
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There are several of us who live out for months at a time. Cabin & tent.


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Re: Wilderness trapping? [Re: Jingles] #7845351
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You pretty much need cabins to manage traplines in remote areas.
Almost all trappers here have Cabins on their lines so they can stay out. Some of the older guys will stay out for 6 weeks or so during the earlier part of the season.
Most of the younger guys stay out for a couple weeks at a time when they have vacation time from work or longer if they have seasonal work.It is common for guys to spend a couple weeks at their cabin in the fall moosehunting and getting a good part of their beaver quota.
Later in the season some guys go out to their camps on weekends in winter to run the lines once a week.


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Re: Wilderness trapping? [Re: white17] #7845387
04/14/23 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by white17
There are several of us who live out for months at a time. Cabin & tent.


And some of us live out there with our families wink

Re: Wilderness trapping? [Re: victor#0] #7845702
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Thank you one and all for the replies, sounds like I won't be doing the unheard of using a tent, alone where 3 to 4 feet of snow is possible overnight at between 6 and 8k elevation, , no cell service and 10 to 12 miles from any other humans.
Guess you either have to either be crazy (which is what the wife and kids say I am) or have a real addiction to pushing the limits. Also guess it would be best to be "Be right with your maker"

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Re: Wilderness trapping? [Re: Jingles] #7845751
04/15/23 10:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Jingles
Thank you one and all for the replies, sounds like I won't be doing the unheard of using a tent, alone where 3 to 4 feet of snow is possible overnight at between 6 and 8k elevation, , no cell service and 10 to 12 miles from any other humans.
Guess you either have to either be crazy (which is what the wife and kids say I am) or have a real addiction to pushing the limits. Also guess it would be best to be "Be right with your maker"

So what's the problem? Just brace up your ridge pole and maybe get a sat phone.


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Re: Wilderness trapping? [Re: drasselt] #7845771
04/15/23 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by drasselt
Originally Posted by Jingles
Thank you one and all for the replies, sounds like I won't be doing the unheard of using a tent, alone where 3 to 4 feet of snow is possible overnight at between 6 and 8k elevation, , no cell service and 10 to 12 miles from any other humans.
Guess you either have to either be crazy (which is what the wife and kids say I am) or have a real addiction to pushing the limits. Also guess it would be best to be "Be right with your maker"

So what's the problem? Just brace up your ridge pole and maybe get a sat phone.


With all due respect to the OP. This thread belongs over on Trap Talk. There isn’t any trapper here in Alaska that traps that close to others and many work out of wall tents. Also I have met several that have walking lines and are hundreds of miles from their neighbor. Good luck and go for it. Your not crazy!
BTW it’s always good to be right with your maker but thinking snow and a tent is going to speed up meeting HIM is crazy.

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Re: Wilderness trapping? [Re: victor#0] #7845901
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Originally Posted by victor#0
Originally Posted by white17
There are several of us who live out for months at a time. Cabin & tent.


And some of us live out there with our families wink


Yep and home schooled kids on the trapline. I remember teaching my stepdaughter to count..........she was on snowshoes at three years old counting her steps along my marten line. Fun times !


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Re: Wilderness trapping? [Re: Jingles] #7846477
04/16/23 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Jingles
Thank you one and all for the replies, sounds like I won't be doing the unheard of using a tent, alone where 3 to 4 feet of snow is possible overnight at between 6 and 8k elevation, , no cell service and 10 to 12 miles from any other humans.
Guess you either have to either be crazy (which is what the wife and kids say I am) or have a real addiction to pushing the limits. Also guess it would be best to be "Be right with your maker"


Seems a bit melodramatic considering you will only be 10 to 12 miles from the nearest person. Not sure why you even consider it crazy, personally I prefer it and I think we're the sane ones and everyone else is crazy grin

Re: Wilderness trapping? [Re: Jingles] #7846516
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I have to agree with that!! laugh


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Re: Wilderness trapping? [Re: Jingles] #7847879
04/18/23 09:02 AM
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Crazy because will be 75 being treated for leukemshuts. area I'm considering is on the opposite side of 3 avalanche shutes. At an elevation of between 6500 and 7900 feet along the crest of the N Cascades mtns

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