Deer hunting in the midwest, there's never been any camping involved for me.

Last year elk hunting in Montana, we hiked about 8 miles in and 8 miles out EVERY DAY to avoid camping. Well, it worked as you can see in the photo, but we wasted a lot of time we could have been hunting more effectively and it got old.



This year, we're going to use a clearing at the bottom of the valley in the center of this photo to camp. We will either have what we can pack in for a 3-4 day stay, or we will contract a couple cowboys to use their horses to pack stuff in, I don't know yet.

Even the locals (except the one we were hunting with) thought we were crazy to be hiking in there. Nobody was going that far in without horses.