Monday, October 16, 2017

Aux Aliments Du Pays On the South Idaho Desert

Over the past weekend I headed down toward the Idaho/Nevada  border country to do a little hunting. I decided to use this time for getting some AMM requirements under my belt, or should I say sash. Here is my journal entries from the trip.

10-13-17
Three Creek. I find myself with no food. I hunted this evening and found nothing. It is snowing! My camp is under a willow with a couple of canveses wove into the branches. It's only been a couple of hours since I ate  yet my stomach is already growling. Hope I find meat tomorrow.
10-14-17
Woke this morning to a couple of inches of snow. Left camp at dawn in search of food. Spent all morning hunting and no meat. I did find a deer hide left by someone. Will have to use it for clothing. Started a fire this afternoon and thawed out my feet. My canvas was dripping from the melting snow and I fought that until it dried off. Sat and read Acts, the first chapter. I agian went out in search of food for the majority of the afternoon. No meat but I found some juniper berries. I ate a few but was forced to quit due to their strong flavor.
When I reached camp I rekindled the fire and dried my half frozen feet. With a warm fire and a puff on my pipe I am not feeling as tired and weak as earlier.
10-15-17
Very cold night last might. I kept feeding the fire until morning. I raised camp and it took me to trips to get my gear out of the canyon due to my weak conditions. Did not find any meat on the way out.













Adios!

3 comments:

  1. Hey Matt, very interesting camp, and great sketches. Not so sure I would have done so well on essentially zero food! It was a really cold weekend. I did my fall camp this past weekend too, and we got that same heavy wet snow Friday night/Sat. morning. I finally found a workable spot to set up camp under a giant doug fir in an aspen/chokecherry grove where i had been seeing a few whitetails. Very long, cold night, well down into the teens. Didn't see any deer but had plenty of very sweet chokecherries to eat though. Allen and I are talking about trying some beaver trapping in Nov.; I'll keep you posted on that in case you could join us. Let me know if you plan to do a winter camp and might want some company. Got a bull elk in WY in Sept. so I could bring meat!
    John Rice

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  2. Gotta love Fall weather in the mountains. Sounds like you had a good camp. Yeah, let me know what you guys plan and I'll see if I'm free. Congrats on the elk.

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  3. Great post Matt. Sure wish I was back up there in God's country instead of down here in this Cimarron country. Great job brother!
    Max

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