Hate to beat a dead horse but I would love to pick someone's brain who has experience in D13. Hunted A32 last year, and had some ideas about D13 while I was working the A32/D13 border about 12 miles in on foot.
This year I put my foot down and decided I'm going to hunt my backyard (D15). Well, after about a week's worth of cumulative hunting the san mateo wilderness during the archery season, I ended up succumbing to heatstroke and getting medevac'd out. At the wife's (always the wiser half) wise recommendation, I'm going north again to slightly cooler/better places, where I'm more familiar (at least with A32, first time in D13)
Not asking for honeyholes, I have a lot of miles on my boots along the sespe river and hours invested into maps, would just like to get some feedback on some areas to help narrow down my list of places to check out Not looking for wallhangers, happy just to put some meat in the freezer to cancel out that whole helicopter rescue blackmark on the season.
It's lower elevation, but those ridges north of sespe river along the southern border looked like they ought to have a little buck or two in them, particularly going up the canyons once you get near the hotsprings trail and deeper along the river? Saw over a dozen does/fawns working the A32 side last year and my thought process is that someone has to be coming down out the ridges to put the coals to mama in the fall? Worth? Waste? Anyone have any insight?
This year I put my foot down and decided I'm going to hunt my backyard (D15). Well, after about a week's worth of cumulative hunting the san mateo wilderness during the archery season, I ended up succumbing to heatstroke and getting medevac'd out. At the wife's (always the wiser half) wise recommendation, I'm going north again to slightly cooler/better places, where I'm more familiar (at least with A32, first time in D13)
Not asking for honeyholes, I have a lot of miles on my boots along the sespe river and hours invested into maps, would just like to get some feedback on some areas to help narrow down my list of places to check out Not looking for wallhangers, happy just to put some meat in the freezer to cancel out that whole helicopter rescue blackmark on the season.
It's lower elevation, but those ridges north of sespe river along the southern border looked like they ought to have a little buck or two in them, particularly going up the canyons once you get near the hotsprings trail and deeper along the river? Saw over a dozen does/fawns working the A32 side last year and my thought process is that someone has to be coming down out the ridges to put the coals to mama in the fall? Worth? Waste? Anyone have any insight?