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On 10/31/2024 at 11:24 AM, norseman said:


Roger. Well you could retire further west?😎

Well, my wife loves to visit out west, but that would be too far from our kids.  And after watching the interview of the guide who had to shoot an Alaskan brown bear w/a 9mm handgun, I realized that I would basically be a bear snack if we lived out there.  Loved our visit to Glacier about ten years ago and do hope to get back out that way now that we both have time.

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I did 30 miles through the woods today.  My new Jeep is at the dealer getting a new lift kit installed, so decided to take the Tundra into the Idaho woods to scout out some challenging trails for the Jeep, and to see if I could find anything squatchy.  Lots of recent rains, so prime conditions for fresh tracks.  

Not a single sighting of even a deer.  Saw at least a dozen hunters, but no game.  Found some great off-road trails and did some hiking, but no tracks.  The area is known as Gold Hill and is reasonably remote.  Beautiful area, but no sign.
 

 

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Nice dog, Arlo. Looks right at home in the rugged landscape. And your good buddy for all kinds of trips, I bet.

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12 hours ago, PNWexplorer said:

I did 30 miles through the woods today.  My new Jeep is at the dealer getting a new lift kit installed, so decided to take the Tundra into the Idaho woods to scout out some challenging trails for the Jeep, and to see if I could find anything squatchy.  Lots of recent rains, so prime conditions for fresh tracks.  

Not a single sighting of even a deer.  Saw at least a dozen hunters, but no game.  Found some great off-road trails and did some hiking, but no tracks.  The area is known as Gold Hill and is reasonably remote.  Beautiful area, but no sign.
 

 

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Your taking Arlo to the train station? What did he do?

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Got the lift done and new tires installed, so did an off-road trip yesterday.  Perfect conditions for tracks, so checked out all the good spots for potential tracks.  Tons of elk and deer, and couple of moose tracks, but no predators or Bigfoot sign.  Lots of hunters.

The Jeep did amazing and I didn't have to use 4x4 all day.

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Did a YouTube video of the trip...
 

 

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Great report, PNW, and it looked like Arlo was enjoying himself. Thanks for the commentary on the MT ATs, I've been looking at those for my H3 in the same size as you have (they'll fit the H3 with no lift), but my current Rotiva ATWs only have about 15,000km (9,000 mi) so it's hard to justify the expense of new ones when those are still doing very well.

 

I went out to our closest research area this afternoon and ran into the same thing you did; the first branch that goes up to a great lookout and a hikers cabin was gated and locked, so I continued to the gate further in that secures the upper valley, for which I have the gate code, and found that it wouldn't open. I don't know if the gate is malfunctioning (it often fails in the open mode) or if I have to contact the Municipality to see if my code has been deleted for some reason. Of course it's a long weekend here in Canada (Memorial Day on Nov 11) so that will have to wait till Tuesday.

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