Members,

I am always interested in good pictures and I thought I'd start a thread to encourage you guys to post some pics of your backpack hunting experiences. To sweeten the pot, I thought maybe we'd run a little contest. I haven't figured out a deadline yet, but we'll accept photos for a specific time then have the members vote on the winner. The winning pic will be the banner for this forum and the winning photographer will get an AR trinket or two (hat or t-shirt or both). I will work on this.

I think we should limit it to 5 entries per member or so, so we don't use up too much of Saeed's bandwidth on this one thread. We can change that as we go depending on participation.

Pictures should be clearly of a backpacking scene, preferably backpack hunting (ie. not strictly scenery or strictly of a hunter with a dead animal).

Procedures for posting pics (AR does not host them) can be found here.

What do you think? Any interest?

Cheers,
Canuck

Great idea. I don't have any to contribute but I'd sure like to see everyone elses.

Great.
Where do you want the pictures? Here or on a new thread?

quote:

Originally posted by DaveC:
Great.
Where do you want the pictures? Here or on a new thread?

We might as well just put them here. I can always move them to a new thread later if need be.

Canuck

Excellent idea Canuck.

I like this photo, though I wish I would have cleaned up the "garbage" and just left the sheep horns with the sunset behind the smoke from forest fires.


This one wasn't during a backpacking hunt, but it does bring back good memories (kinda fuzzy ones )


sunrise on the Muskwa




COLD on the feet, but oh so good [IMG]
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b208/trapntrav/b3.jpg[/IMG]

After a little cut and paste

Canuck

being kind of computer illiterate, I would like to ask you to help me understand why it is that AR doesn't host its own photos. What does it take to do this? Is it a piece of equipment, or what?

That's not fair... I just had my hard disk crash. All my pictures gone....boohooohooo!!
Now I can't play... ;-)

Frans

Great pic's trapntrav! Thanks for starting us off.

22WRF, I'm no computer expert either, but as I understand it, it has to do with bandwidth and server space. Bandwidth is basically the amount of computer traffic, measured in amounts of data transmitted (uploaded or downloaded) in a fixed amount of time. More bandwidth costs more money. Server space is the amount of storage room for files. The amount of server space occupied by AR is huge, as Saeed would like to keep as many old posts as possible. Plus there are all the shooting/hunting video clips that made this site so popular to begin with. As with bandwidth, server space also costs money.

There are also concerns about the functioning of the software. The more data it manages, the slower it can get. The software for this site has been upgraded about 6 times, in order to keep up to the increasing data stored and the increasing traffic (# of users, file sizes uploaded, etc).

In order to keep the site functioning as well as it does, and to keep costs down somewhat, Saeed and DRG have decided not to allow photo hosting on their servers. There are lots of free photo hosting sites out there, so there is no need to recreate that here.

Frans....didn't anyone ever explain "backups" to you! Sorry to hear about your harddrive....hopefully you haven't lost your pics permanently!

Cheers,
Canuck

nice pics guys, the only problem with taking pictures in the mountains (or most scenery) is that the pic never comes close to doing the real sight justice, at least it seems that way for me

That last shot of David's with the fog is just wonderful, it reminds me of so many mornings on the very remote BCFS firelookouts I used to work on, it makes me "homesick".

The New Zealand shot looks so much like the East Kootenays that it is freaky; I kinda expect to see Canucks friendly face pop up, posing over a Bighorn about like that Stone's he tortures us with.

here are a few of mine from last season,

7500 ft solo climb

http://www.hunt101.com/img/368609.jpg
http://www.hunt101.com/img/368606.jpg
http://www.hunt101.com/img/368611.jpg


deer camp in the alpine sept 10

http://www.hunt101.com/img/322880.JPG
http://www.hunt101.com/img/322884.JPG

A ewe that "stalked" me for 1 hour, I took this photo at 10ft,

http://www.hunt101.com/img/320592.jpg

The New Zealand shot looks so much like the East Kootenays that it is freaky; I kinda expect to see Canucks friendly face pop up, posing over a Bighorn about like that Stone's he tortures us with.[/QUOTE] The photo is not New Zealand,its up in Canada the block is 7/18 which does not mean much to me,one of the hundreds of photos i took when i was Canada last October,you guys have a great country.

http://www.hunt101.com/img/368606.jpg
What is this thing?

quote:

Originally posted by Maxx:
here are a few of mine from last season,

7500 ft solo climb

http://www.hunt101.com/img/368609.jpg
http://www.hunt101.com/img/368606.jpg
http://www.hunt101.com/img/368611.jpg


deer camp in the alpine sept 10

http://www.hunt101.com/img/322880.JPG
http://www.hunt101.com/img/322884.JPG

A ewe that "stalked" me for 1 hour, I took this photo at 10ft,

http://www.hunt101.com/img/320592.jpg

Looks like a microwave tower (communication repeater).

Does fishing count?

Swiss Glanerland, late Summer 2005

I had recommended a seperate forum just for posting pictures, but there has not been much interest.

Hear are a few photos from my NWT trip.

quote:

Originally posted by Canuck:
Looks like a microwave tower (communication repeater).

You sure it isn't some Canadian's house? Kinda looks like a Buck Rogers space ship.

Do scouting photos count? Too bad I wasn't scouting for goats...

[url="http://www.hunt101.com/?p=370678&c=550&z=1"] [/url]


My new buddy and I
[url="http://www.hunt101.com/?p=370603&c=550&z=1"] [/url]


[IMG][url="http://www.hunt101.com/?p=370669&c=552&z=1"] [/url][/IMG]


[IMG][url="http://www.hunt101.com/?p=370673&c=552&z=1"] [/url][/IMG]

Chuck

What are we looking at through the spotter?

A Bighorn Ram in his bead, quartering away the the right. You can see his white rump and the backs of his horns.

Chuck

Canuck,

These aren't official contest entries, just ones for enjoyment. -TONY

Tony, How do you get the moon like that? Two photos? The first a moon close-up the second superimpossed somehow? That's the only way I can think of.

- stu

[QUOTE]What is this thing?[QUOTE]


This appears to be what is affectionately known here in BC, as the "big green dildo". BC Forest Service radio repeater.

KevinB---Thanks for clearing that up. Seems kind of temporary being shored up with what appears to be rocks that were just laying around. Maybe they want it to lean. Sometimes I wonder about them Canuck's. They sure got good hunting and fishing though.

Hey Chuck, what kind of artillary are you packing for your sheep hunts, looks like some pretty nice rifles in your pics.

From a 2004 shepp hunt in the Brooks Range, AK.

When is the vote for the winner?

Morning


Evening


Going up

Pictures from a couple of hunts in AK.

pica, it's a custom 7MM built on a model 70 action.

Chuck

quote:

Originally posted by Chuck Nelson:
pica, it's a custom 7MM built on a model 70 action.

Chuck

I'm trying my hardest not to pick up a 270 or 7mm for hunting, always good to have a spare or two. Hear of any rams being taken out of the mountains you've been hunting, you must have passed on the one in the scope.

quote:

Originally posted by Pegleg:
Sometimes I wonder about them Canuck's. They sure got good hunting and fishing though.

Sometimes we wonder about ourselves too!

I'm just guessing, it might be someone else's repeater, but is sure looks like one of the Forestry ones. I'm sure Kutenay has seen his share of them, he could probably verify if my guess is right.