I'll hafta say the woods behind my house. They aren't the prettiest, by far...but their beauty lies in the fact that they are MINE!

My two favorites are Ron LaClairs Shrewhaven lodge and the backside of Lone Mountain (inbetween Lone and Fan mountain) on the other side of Big Sky, Montana.  One has a bunch of good friends attached with a 'grizzly bear' mountain man leader and the other has lot's of Grizzly bears (along with elk, mule deer, mountain lions, moose and black bear) for a true wilderness feeling-although I haven't been there since the late eighties, I still have pictures in my mind.

the Colorado Rockies with the big old growth pines, golden fall aspens and crazy rut'n elk.  Oh my friend that is a little bit of heaven.

I have no pictures of the woods I'm thinking of.  They are woods on the edge of the "Bald Knob" at the end of Schooner Valley Road in Brown County, Indiana -- about 15 yards from the Brown County State Park.  That's where Mr. White-tail and I first met in 1970.

I'm going to go back there this summer to take a couple of pictures and see if even the nails in that old permanent stand are still in place.

This thread inspired me to want to do that.

Thank-you!

Probably the most inspiring thread I have ever viewed..thanks to everyone for sharing

Northern Maine

northern Quebec

out my back door

mine would prolly be my camp in sw ms. when the leaves are changing in the fall from yellow to orange, hard to beat that. watching a river bottom with the big creek flowing thru.

Central Idaho.  Along the Salmon River just north of where the Pahsimeroi River dumps into the Salmon.  It's where I chase elk and muleys every September.  Also see bear, moose, mtn goats, bighorn sheep, wolves, pronghorn, and an occasional turkey.

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Northern Maine

Especially from a canoe in September... lots of waterways.

I've been fortunate to have hunted in a lot of places in this country, and Canada, each has it's own special qualities, but Kevin Dill's picture on page 5 is it for me.  I lived in Interior Alaska on the banks of the Yukon for 4 years, and hunted the Yuki River each September.  Getting up on a small ridge off the river is a view I will never forget, you could see for miles, the colors were spectacular, and you never knew which of the many small oxbow ponds would reveal a moose.  Even though 30 years have passed, I remember it like yesterday....

David

Backyard in Alabama. Big snow.

Mt Hood National forest


 

My back yard




The jungles of the Oregon coast range





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i've hunted a couple times in the rockies including just below the 14,000'mt. sneffels south of montrose and that was unbelievable country...but my favorite hunting is in my home state of ohio...i've hunted the wayne national forest since 1964...i've taken a few very nice bucks in it...i was born and raised there...in the athens district...each year on halloween weekend we have a 9 day deer camp there thats free to anyone that wants to come...its very primitive camping in the woods but near a twnship road...we've killed some nice bucks at the camp...several being killed by guys from other states...as said i,ve hunted here since 1964...to me once i get out in those woods its as nice as anywhere...and the hunting is great...

Outside Kotzebue, Alaska



Glassed for Bou from Castle Rock



My place in MO.





Nothing like your own place. Very lucky.

I will say the prettiest day I ever spent in the woods was a day in mid October in N. Mo. It was the early 80's and the oak leaves were bright orange. I think every leaf on every tree decided to fall to the ground that day with the light breeze. Walking thru the woods was like walking in a snowfall of leaves. Haven't seen anything like it since..........