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Plans for the upcoming year?
Posted by B_M on Feb 26 2006
Alright, the snow has started falling again and summer is a few months off...but planning season is in full gear - so let's start a thread about your plans for the upcoming year. What are you focusing on? Assuming you don't draw any more tags in the spring drawing (you can never count on that), what will you be chasing come August/September? Even if you're not sure it will work out logistically, what are you hoping for? Here's my list:
Late May: Perhaps a little black bear hunting on the Kenai Peninsula. It's basically just an excuse to get out and do some long-distance hiking, but I'll carry a gun just in case. My brother runs a bait stand that I could hunt, but in May I'm just itching to get up into the mountains and cover some country on foot.
Early August - I would really like to do an early-season blacktail hunt in Prince William Sound. I've been commercial fishing out there since I was a child, yet I've never hunted deer out there. I know the hunting is better in the late season, but I love the idea of going to the top of an island and watching closely all day long for the movement of a buck. A little bit of fishing on the side wouldn't be so bad either!
Aug. 10-16: This depends on the scouting I do in July. I really want to do a sheep hunt, but I'll make that decision based on what I find while hiking my areas during the rest of the summer. If I don't think I have a decent shot at a sheep, I may make a trip up the Haul Road for caribou. My wife and I had a blast on both a sheep hunt and a haul road hunt last year, so either one would be fun. I'm perfectly happy after an unsuccessful sheep hunt, but I won't have as much time to put meat in the freezer next year, so that might factor into my decision.
Weekends from Aug. 20-Sept. 30: Moose hunting. I was lucky enough to bag a spike only an hour from home last year, so I'll probably be trying that again. Very few things taste better than a young bull - so tender! I'm a teacher and our school year starts three weeks earlier next year. I'm really disappointed about that, but will make the best of it by hunting weekends.
Sept/Oct/Nov - Registration Goat hunt. I have a few ideas here - some that take at least three days, some that I might be able to pull off in one day. It'll depend on my schedule, the weather, and the openings, but I sure would like to chase some goats with my bow.
That's my ideal list, which of course is subject to change. What's yours? These dreams are all I have to keep the cabin fever at bay - at least until enough snow falls to hit the backcountry mountains again.
-Brian
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