First I want to say good luck to everyone this Saturday in Colorado!
Unfortunately mother nature had different plans for us this year!
While the west is in a drought and seemingly everywhere there is a wildfire we in NJ have had 14" of rain in the last 30 days including a flash flood that drowned two of my cars that the insurance company wrote off. Fortunately we had comprehensive and gap insurance so the outstanding loans were paid off on one car and there was some equity in the other but having to come up with two down payments and then going on this trip just wasn't doable this year!
It seemed that someone was saying this wasn't the year to go almost from the start. We were first looking at where the 416 fire was then we looked at the Hunter Frying Pan wilderness not understanding just how high the elevation was for someone that lives a block from the bay and mile to the Ocean in NJ. I got many responses and Pm's when I was asking about the unit and what I needed saying that I would need at least a week to acclimate to the elevation before even hunting so we changed our focus to the Steamboat Springs area specifically the Sarvis Creek Wilderness and then the Silver Creek fire shut the wilderness down.
My son and I will get there hopefully next year. The positive of it is I now have all of the equipment we will need and the only thing we will need money for next year is our licenses, gas and food. It will also give me more time to master the OnX Maps as well as learning how to use the Garmin InReach I bought for the trip.
Again good luck and post pics!
Unfortunately mother nature had different plans for us this year!
While the west is in a drought and seemingly everywhere there is a wildfire we in NJ have had 14" of rain in the last 30 days including a flash flood that drowned two of my cars that the insurance company wrote off. Fortunately we had comprehensive and gap insurance so the outstanding loans were paid off on one car and there was some equity in the other but having to come up with two down payments and then going on this trip just wasn't doable this year!
It seemed that someone was saying this wasn't the year to go almost from the start. We were first looking at where the 416 fire was then we looked at the Hunter Frying Pan wilderness not understanding just how high the elevation was for someone that lives a block from the bay and mile to the Ocean in NJ. I got many responses and Pm's when I was asking about the unit and what I needed saying that I would need at least a week to acclimate to the elevation before even hunting so we changed our focus to the Steamboat Springs area specifically the Sarvis Creek Wilderness and then the Silver Creek fire shut the wilderness down.
My son and I will get there hopefully next year. The positive of it is I now have all of the equipment we will need and the only thing we will need money for next year is our licenses, gas and food. It will also give me more time to master the OnX Maps as well as learning how to use the Garmin InReach I bought for the trip.
Again good luck and post pics!