I have this thing for deep forest- and I will go to a lot of trouble to find a section of forest that is either untouched or seems that way. I know I am there when it feels like it could be 2012 or 1712.

One area in Maine I used to hunt was a 1.5 mile canoe paddle to a small landing, then a short hike. It was an other worldly place and truely unusual for most of Maine woods in that it was fairly open.

The other is an old growth section in Colorado. The understory itself is over 60 foot tall with firs towering over that by a fair margin. Some views are 1/4 mile, but through heavy treed forest. VERY primative. The deadfalls in there are epic too. So bring your patience.

What forest have you hunted that made you feel like a time traveler? Or awed to be stalking through?

Joshua

Unfortunately in SC the most remote we can get is a large tract of game management land and does not provide the pristine old growth forest effect...however....with young kids, civilian and military employment...I am at the point where as long as I cannot hear traffic or run into other people, I kind of get the same satisfaction. My policy, when hunting and flyfishing...hike until I stop seeing trash and other indicators, then hike another mile and start there.

All the cedar swamps in Jersey give me goose bumps and have me thinking an Indian will walk by at any moment.I love the cedars in the morning.

Any piece of bush that has no computer, cell phone, traffic of any kind, just peace and quiet. I hunt in the foothills of the Rockie Mountains, and find it to be very serene. Even if I don't see any game, it's still awesome!

Lake City Co. back in the 80's

Selway Bitterroot Wilderness in Idaho and Montana. No roads, no gas powered anything. Beautiful dark timber, meadows, bowls and drainage's...quietest place I've ever been.

They were logging in there when I was elk hunting way back in on horses. The loggers were using those big draft horses to pull the logs out when I was there.

I hunt some state land that was my grandpas farm back in the day. Old growth hardwoods and deep valleys. Kinda bittersweet hunting next to rusted relics of farm equipment that was once my families. The price of progress.

Rob

Michigan's Upper Penninsula, or the Northern part of the Lower at the peak of fall colors.

County Line Valley in the Siamese Wilderness Area in the Adirondacks of upstate New York. Once you get a mile from the road and river the next 6-7 miles in just remarkable! I have taken my bow for a walk a few times and it is a neat trip! Last time I went I followed Moose sign the whole way....kind'a cool for New York!

Try the Pacific coast range in Oregon. Old growth timber in alot of places. Just magnificent.. Ferns chest high. Trees hundred feet tall and huge around.

I spent over 25 years hunting Aberdeen Proving Grounds in MD, a 35,000 acre hunters paradise that used to be farmland before WW1. What makes it beautiful is it was loaded with tons of big racked bucks.

We do a nice 45 mile back-packing trip in the area we hunt in the Cascade close to North Cascade national park and there is a section of the forest that reminds us of the Lord of the Rings and it seems like a Ork could be behind any tree. Just a neat section of woods with ferns a huge old firs.

I do miss sections of woods in the San Juans of CO that made it feel like it could be hundreds of years ago.

I love my pine hardwood mix at my camp.
A walk after my hunt with my grandaughter.

but I also love the palmetto bottomland hardwoods at my hunting club.woods and duckblind.


but I also love my time in the Canadian woods.

I haven't downloaded some Rocky Mountians pics but I also love it there also and maybe anywhere I will be hunting and enjoying nature.Kip

Love to hunt in my home state of Chihuahua Mexico.

 

Sierra Nevada's, up and down California.  If you get high enough and back in far enough you feel like your hiking with John Muir himself.

QuoteOriginally posted by Buckwheaties:
Try the Pacific coast range in Oregon. Old growth timber in alot of places. Just magnificent.. Ferns chest high. Trees hundred feet tall and huge around.

X2! Wilderness area's, Hard to describe but unreal timber. I will go back again one of these years even just for camping and stump shooting.

Tracy

The Olympic peninsula rainforest.   If you lose your way it will be 1720 and your trying to survive to get out.  You can watch Elk, Deer, or Bear cross the trail or river anywhere you walk.  Climb high enough and Mountain Goats, Bears, and Cougars, rule the landscape.

Yes, right here in Oregon.

West Central Montana First day of archery season 2010..Love it   **Photo credit to my good friend rookiebowhunter**