Most beautiful woods you have hunted in?

[stickhorse]

Summer stumping area    
Elk chasing area  

[JimB]

This is a picture from the Dolly Sods Wilderness Area in WV.I spent a lot of time there in the '70's and '80's.It was about half tundra and half woods and could snow 9 months out of the year,with extremely rough winters.
 

Of course MT has a lot of varied and beautiful terrain.I've hunted in the Sierra Nevadas in Northern California a little,and they have to be seen to be believed.

It is just hard to beat the Eastern woods when the Fall colors peak.I wish I had taken more pictures of them when I was there.

[statedriller]

The timber I love the most is the one I own...  Standing on your own ground is a feeling like no other.  At least to me...

[Kevin Dill]

I've been a few places, and seen some beautiful remote country. NWT, Utah, Arizona, BC, SK, Ontario, Yukon, Adirondacks, Colorado, etc. Here's my current favorite location, and I'll be seeing it again in a few months:

Interior Alaska's prime moose and caribou country.

[Michigan Mark]

Every woods that I am presently hunting in. Thanks for the nice pictures folks. When your in the woods ENJOY the moments.

[Killdeer]

New wallpaper, thank you Mr. Dill! Even the small file size worked well, the large file would make some money for you as stock!

Looks like Russell Annabel's place!
Killdeer    :eek:

[Killdeer]

JimB, I played with the white balance.

 

Yours has more of the forboding aspect of the skies. You feel so unprotected there, vulnerable, and the weather can turn on its heel and be replaced by something completely opposite in a trice. I look on the flash of sun on a freshly garnished tree and savor the blessing of light and heat. Have to, it will be gone in a moment.

That place is sacred.
Killdeer

[Mike Theis]

I think it's usually the last place I went hunting out of state.

In this case, a Nebraska Creek Bottom.

What do you think?



 

[Shifting Shadow]

No such pristine place here. Can't get away from farm machinery or road traffic. BUT, there is a small area nearby I call Hidden Valley. It can't be seen from the road. It is my illusion of remote wilderness, good for a day. I go there to daydream and do as little as possible. Then, the crushing reality returns on the trek out. Ah, but for those moments of departure from the mundane, life would be less interesting!

[JimB]

Originally posted by Killdeer:
JimB, I played with the white balance.

 

Yours has more of the forboding aspect of the skies. You feel so unprotected there, vulnerable, and the weather can turn on its heel and be replaced by something completely opposite in a trice. I look on the flash of sun on a freshly garnished tree and savor the blessing of light and heat. Have to, it will be gone in a moment.

That place is sacred.
Killdeer

Thanks Killie.that looks nice.It was actually a forboding day and the wind was brutal.It is a special place.Wish I could get back into some of my old haunts.

[wildwood]

Marbel Mnt. wilderness N.W. Calif is pretty neat

[Killdeer]

Beaver ponds gone to meadow


Little gardens everywhere


Springtime


Off to the knob


Killdeer

[hawkeye n pa]

The Flattops, Colorado.  The first place I went elk hunting many moons ago.  

But I can not remember being in any woods that I didn't like.

[Brad_Gentry]

War Bluff area of Shawnee National Forest in extreme southern Illinois.

[stickhorse]

some on the other side of the valley

[Shane C]

I have really been blessed by being able to learn how to hunt here in Montana. Sure there are lots of areas where there are lots of people, but I've been on trails that I know nobody else is around for miles. Pretty awesome.

[varmint101]

Yes it is TJ!

I long to see with my own eyes some of those Western areas with the silver aspens(I think) with the yellow leaves some of ya'll take when elk hunting.  Mike Mitten had some sweet pictures of different Western hunts he'd taken also.  Maybe he will share!

I like my backyard woods too!  By the way these are all from areas at the time of drag out.    

[ron w]

Just fantastic stuff......Killdeer, your photos always amaze me!!

[Sam McMichael]

I have a little hardwood hillside that falls away into a creek bottom on the small place I have in my home county. It does not have the majestic look of some of the beautiful photos seen in this thread, but it just looks like what the autumn woods in Midddle Georgia are supposed to look like in deer season.  Being there relaxes me. That's where I talk to God a lot.

[Mark Baker]

Everywhere I've been has it's own special beauty, to me, anyway.   Here's some from my files....from Alaska, to home, to Georgia, and Florida...