i'm leaving tomorrow morning for my annual hunting trip to the Idaho wilderness

a couple of pictures from previous trips i like to look at to remind me

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Beautiful country. I miss the Colorado bow hunting trips.

Where about are you going? I was born and raised in the panhandle around Wallace and Kellogg.

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2012 Vee Adventure

We fly out of McCall into the wilderness. It's the Frank church wilderness of no return.

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Are you going in one of those little grasshopper planes with the huge balloon tires?
You know the planes... they take off in 48 feet and land on a pizza box.

Send photos !!!!

close! they look like this:



these aren't the piper cubs with turf tires...but we take off and land in gravel and the side of a hill...pretty exciting really....this model is a Cessna 206...it can do short distance landing and take off just not as extreme as what you are thinking...

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These units sound pretty tough. I hear you can flop them into almost any good sized piece of flat ground and unless you load them up with half a ton of moose, you can usually get off the ground again.
I'm not sure about landing on a hillside though. That sounds a little sketchy.
I'm sure you will have great memories from the trip in any case.

Kill everything! Especially the deer!
Hill side landing are just the thing. The uphill grade slows the plane quickly on landings and turn around down hill for the speed gathering take off.
Famed Sierra bush pilot Bob White used to fly up and get snow off the mountains out of Lome Pine Ca.
He's land on ridges.

Elk in Idaho?? I thought the wolves were destroying the elk herds there. My elk hunting is over for the year since I have to move soon and don't have time to process it if I did get one. I struck out for the second year in a row. My 70 year old mother; however, got one of the biggest 6-point bulls I have ever seen. Damn her!

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Oh yeah, lots of elk in Idaho. Some places you have to watch out for deer, in Idaho you have to watch out for elk in some places. Deer, too. And if the ranchers in Idaho have their way, the wolf population will be reduced. Mostlly the wolves are hard on cattle and sheep.

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