. . . To him who has once tasted the reckless independence, the haughty self-reliance, the sense of irresponsible freedom, which the forest life engenders, civilization thenceforth seems flat and stale. Its pleasures are insipid, its pursuits wearisome, its conventionalities, duties, and mutual dependence alike tedious and disgusting. The entrapped wanderer grows fierce and restless, and pants for breathing-room. His path, it is true, was choked with difficulties, but his body and soul were hardened to meet them; it was beset with dangers, but these were the very spice of his life, gladdening his heart with exulting self-confidence, and sending the blood through his veins with a livelier current. The wilderness, rough, harsh, and inexorable, has charms more potent in their seductive influence than all the lures of luxury and sloth. And often he on whom it has cast its magic finds no heart to dissolve the spell, and remains a wanderer and an Ishmaelite to the hour of his death.
Francis Parkman
2009 Bull Run Elk Hunt, An Opening Day 6 Point Double
The backcountry base camp...everything brought in on foot.......doing it the hard way....
Jerry, Glassing no tell'um ridge for elk......
Dustin and his great Idaho 6 point!!!!
4 comments:
Awesome bulls! really nice photo journal of your hunt. Thanks for sharing and someday I hope to get my first bull.
I thought you "outdoorsmen" killed to put meat on the table, yet there are photos of just heads being carried home. What's the story here?
replying to Denise: if you take the time to lookat the pictures, you see that they quartered the elk, boned out the back and ribs, and took very good care to harvest all the meat from those elk. try to see what's presented before you make poor comments.
brandon boller
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