Escalante Utah

[TeamRoper]

This was a hunt back when the area was just opened up by Clinton.was closed for i forget like 8 or 10 yrs. For some mineral rights and me my stepdad and some of my dads buddies did pretty good.

 

[ilovesprig]

Cool pic, Mac....Great article in the NWTF magazine this issue about the Escalante River and surrounding habitat.

 

[TRICER]

Fun stuff! I love deer camp, it’s a shame more kids don’t get to experience it. More deer camps and dads with their kids would solve a vast majority of our problems.

 

[ilovesprig]

Fun stuff! I love deer camp, it’s a shame more kids don’t get to experience it. More deer camps and dads with their kids would solve a vast majority of our problems.

Deer camp circa, 1960...My dad would take me out of school every year for a week in the Sierra's (D-12), or Nevada...I hated school, loved to hunt...

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[TRICER]

Deer camp circa, 1960...My dad would take me out of school every year for a week in the Sierra's (D-12), or Nevada...I hated school, loved to hunt...

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You learned more in that camp trust me. Spent 5 hours with my boy scouting this morning. You can’t replace that time.

 

[ilovesprig]

You learned more in that camp trust me. Spent 5 hours with my boy scouting this morning. You can’t replace that time.

Yep Drew...And it wasn't just from my dad...The other men became my mentors too...My dad worked a lot.

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[Bowman]

Deer camp circa, 1960...My dad would take me out of school every year for a week in the Sierra's (D-12), or Nevada...I hated school, loved to hunt...

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love those ol jeeps , I would love to have one now that was in mint condition..

 

[Bowman]

camping was great, enjoy the outdoors, 18 years old camping out in the open with indian blankets and water proof tarps.
in old mexico high sierra madres, snowed on us that night, it didn't get cold because it was warm under those heavy duty tarps,
rode in on horse back and pack mules. hunting with ol 30-30 Winchester rifles. when my brother in law woke up his beard had ice on it.
start a fire and make coffee.
there was turkey, pig, bear, and deer. lots of wildlife in those days.

 

[Bowman]

my friends from Harbison canyon I grew with because of the frizzy long hair & beard use to call me canyon man

 

[Aeon]

@ilovesprig nice willys MB!!!!! the original ATV. Still have our cj2a just amazing how good they built them

 

[ilovesprig]

Bill,

Here it is right from the war surplus store...That's my grandpa posing...lol

ps...This was one of our deer camps on the West Walker River near Bridgeport...1959

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[Bowman]

one of my brothers buddies in the Navy had one Military Jeep, would absolutely go any where...

 

[TeamRoper]

one of my brothers buddies in the Navy had one Military Jeep, would absolutely go any where...

Thats a funny sticker. I remember my grandpa had one and to steer it straight he moved the wheel 180 back and forth.lol

 

[stikbrandon]

Bill,

Here it is right from the war surplus store...That's my grandpa posing...lol

ps...This was one of our deer camps on the West Walker River near Bridgeport...1959

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I wonder how a conversation with your grandfather would go discussing today’s world.

Id love it

 

[ilovesprig]

I wonder how a conversation with your grandfather would go discussing today’s world.

Id love it

I was talking to my dad (92) the other night about some of the places we hunted & fished in LA, Orange, Riverside, and San Berdo counties...Really never had to drive much further than 45 minutes (& no freeways).

The Sierra's were totally different too...I stayed in many a old miner's cabin...This is with my grandpa, and my 2 uncles in a cabin that still had a newspaper and stuff from the turn of the century.

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[stikbrandon]

I was talking to my dad (92) the other night about some of the places we hunted & fished in LA, Orange, Riverside, and San Berdo counties...Really never had to drive much further than 45 minutes (& no freeways).

The Sierra's were totally different too...I stayed in many a old miner's cabin...This is with my grandpa, and my 2 uncles in a cabin that still had a newspaper and stuff from the turn of the century.

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So cool bud