Mountain Hunter Navigation - Part 1 - Common Pitfalls
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Cliff goes over some common pitfalls when it comes to folks getting lost. How does it happen and how to avoid it!
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You need more subscribers. I'm pushing 40 just getting into hunting since moving to CO and your videos are great fundamentals for someone like me!
Kind words man! thanks. Good luck on your hunts.
Always turn around and check your back track as it looks different than your initial approach. Very good information cliff keep them coming
Wow, I’ve made everyone of those mistakes and some more than once. The worst spatial disorientation happened to me on a quick hunt when a thick snowstorm came in. I couldn’t see more than 30 yards but thought I was following the correct drainage and came across footprints. I thought “What idiot is out here in the snowstorm?” and then realized it was me and I was 180 degrees turned around . A quick compass check confirmed and I decided to follow my footprints back to the truck before they got filled in. That one scared me.
Me too! For me, it’s not that scary being lost… it’s realizing your lost when you were 100% certain you knew where you are!
for remembering trail, if you find a mark that you think you'll remember, walk 20 or 30 feet down the trail you'd be coming back on and turn around and walk it back and imprint that little section in your mind. ... or take a photo with your phone haha.
great video again!
great additional tip! thanks
Found your videos yesterday. When I realized it was the guy from the Jay Scott podcast, I listened. Your info you are giving out is amazing. A lot seems proprietary. Side note, use surveyor ribbon to mark your trails and t's, ect. Tie it long so it blows in the wind. As high as you can. Take it down and take it with you as you go by. Pink is the best. Green looks good in tge store but is worthless. Orange is second best. White third. I am a land surveyor. These are not guesses. We use them to get out of some nasty places we had to go to get old glo monuments.
great additional tip - thanks
Pink! 😂🤣😂🤣😂
I know, you’re right… 😁
Looks like I picked correctly. Pink made the most sense to me even though I hate that color.
I am on the way to Walmart for some of that ole survey ribbon, LOL. Great note.
Some of this was new for me. Thanks!
Thank you! I wish I would have seen this long ago
Thanks for the video and your time
My 17 year old son really wants to get into cowboying, packing, and guiding…how should I help him break into those industries?
We do a lot of backcountry hunting and he’s been working on a horse ranch for an over a year. He’s been studying fairier work for a few months as well.
He’s already doing the right things.
Every time he wants to learn a new facet or skill or whatever, get a job doing it.
Do a good job. Learn. Get very good, be useful.
Make friends. Be hard working and cool, an asset, a good guy to have around.
Speak what you want into existence. Imagine what you want into existence.
Tell him, every night, as he falls asleep, to fantasize about his vision….
All this shit for free, that's insane .. as always, thanks for sharing
Ha! Thanks man
Rivers and creeks are great landmarks for direction 👊🏻
@@billdickson1142 true but never screwed just got to know how to use other methods of direction
Great job Cliff!
thanks!
excellent video!
Glad you liked it!
Great video like always.
Two comments. I solo a lot. When I get to a trail intersection, I lift a branch or move a rock or two next to, not in the trail. Takes less than 10 seconds and I always find them. Number two, years ago, in the dark, I got my compass out, another hunter wanted to see the direction so he turned on his flashlight and held it right over. I noticed immediately the needle swing 180 degrees. If he was alone, he would have headed the wrong direction.
Great tips Charles! Yes, the compass reversing polarity is a major deal. I've had it happen a couple times.
I should have stated, I always position that stick or rocks it so I will see it in the dark, with a headlamp low on the trail, on my way out. No one else would notice it, but for me it’s a huge billboard. Love your experience and the way you are able to share it. Never did a guided hunt, most guides I met at shows were as good as your typical fly fishing guide. Rote, it’s a living not a passion. I like your passion. I get flown in and dropped off for 10-14 days Frank Church wilderness. You experiences are true to my own.
@@charlesbond4413 I'd love to do the frank church fly-in deal. looks like a blast! appreciate the comments. thanks
The earth doesn't change it's axis seasonally, it leans toward the sun in the warmer months and away in the colder months. Swapping hands with the earth and sun models would be more accurate, and represent a 6 month difference. The perception of the sun rising in the northeast is when you are viewing it from the southern hemisphere
Are you talking about Montana for your area? It looks like Montana haha.
Sorry, I was listening to the video while doing other things. I just heard you say Colorado haha. Beautiful country. I've never been over there. Montana and Wyoming I've been to many times and love it.
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Walking down the wrong wash at the end of a 15 mile day…. 😕
Lol cilf u hunted Capitan NM mountain?
I haven’t
There a lil dif they run east to west not north to south
wrong drainage is the very best way to get lost in the mountains.