Author: digger

I am a proud member of the esteemed hunting camp rightfully named F-Troop. I am also the lazy caretaker of this half developed, outdated site. Don't worry, as always the "update is in progress!"
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NYS Orthoimagery Application

Here is a link to NYS Orthos Online Aerial Imagery for your viewing pleasure. Start studying now Dan! Detail is pretty good when zoomed in, I can see my trailer, the Humphrey House, dump trucks, and the hunting camp.

One thing you don’t see is all the snow that is still on the ground! If you want to get an idea of that check this out “What a difference a year makes!”, posted by the same guy who runs www.ilsnow.com. He is right about the NOAA link, I lost half an hour just like that playing around with all the options and I have no idea what most of them even mean. 🙂

So where are we gonna try to “Troop” this Spring/Summer?

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Even Cabela’s has an app now!

Check it out here: Cabela’s RECON HUNT for iPhone

Description
“Cabela’s Recon Hunt is the first mobile navigation app built solely for hunters. With Recon Hunt, you can find hunting spots on detailed maps, track wildlife, take trophy photos and backtrack home. Recon Hunt also tracks other essentials as well: weather forecasts, sun and moon phases, trip stats and ballistics information. Our power saver technology monitors how you use the app in order to preserve battery power. Plus, Recon Hunt works in remote places without the need of data and cellular signals.”

You will need a newer iPhone, iPad, or compatiable android handset to use this app. Believe it or not, I don’t have any of those devices. Yet. When I do acquire said device, this will be one of the first apps I download.

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2010 Fifth Weekend Post Report

Friday:Polecat, Robba and Leaddog gets into camp Thursday night, with Robba earning his Thursday hunt badge. All head up into Beaver Valley with images of the Hartford Elk in their heads. Polecat and Robba hunts to the Split Rock Camp, with Leaddog pushing the Thumb towards them. Tracks abound, scrapes noticed on the end of the Thumb with a new bed that appeared to have been recently vacated. As Leaddog approaches the two near the first objective, a mysterious event once again occurs: While the two are conferring, they hear a walking noise, with stick cracking just out of their sight. (See Week Four Friday Hunt), When the radio is used to summon Leaddog’s whereabouts, it appears that this walking noise was not him, as he was several hundred yards away still. The mystery “beast” once again stumps the crew! Bear? Deer? Sasquatch? Billy? No one knows! The crew hunts to the moose rub and surrounds. No mules observed, and the scrapes that were once active are now unattended. Beast O’ Mighty is chasing and tending his does!

Saturday:Crew of 8.5 Rangers assaults No-Name and the Bunny Hill in an attempt to harvest the body armored mule that evaded Leaddog’s bullets last week. Does pushed all about, but no buck in the mix. The Bunny Hill was covered by the crew like Liberals waiting for a handout. Does once again sprouts wings and tunnels through the hill. Robba locates a runway where the beasts have two options in their attempt to escape. This location was duly noted, and a watcher will be placed there next time. Probie as seen in the photo, earns his “Sandpit and Bunny Hill” Badges…..as a true engineer as he is…he was inquiring as to where the keys to the heavy equipment were located.

Sunday:Crew decides to confuse the mules by hunting the Bunny Hill in reverse. The only observation was the hill being viewed from a different direction. Crew splits and watchers are deployed to the Knolls, where the drive ended in fine fashion; at Leaddog’s stump watch. Chip decides to “recon” the stream right past the cable on his fastidious exodus from the woods….thus leaving a trail of fire behind him that could be seen from the International Space Station. 😉

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2010 Third Weekend Post Report

Friday: Leaddog, Probie goes into wet woods, snow and other types of precipitation begins. Leaddog hunts up through Beaver Valley to the Amphitheater then down to Probie on watch somewhere near Piney Knob. Polecat joins the hunt, and prowls around near the 10pt watch. Robba and Hobbit stays low and sits in their local watches. All had a wonderful day in the woods!

Saturday: Crew awakes in earnest to assault lands far away. Leaddog, Polecat and Toucher drives Too Far Ridge and Pond. Toucher earns new badge; “Twin Lakes”. Steven and Matt slithers to Digger’s watch on the backside of Stayaway, with Steven up on the Ridge. Polecat decides to take yet another extended walk around Too Far Pond, almost crossing RT28 in Racquette Lake! 🙂 Probie and Lindy sits on the sunny side of Stayaway, awaiting the hopeful return of the drivers, especially Polecat. Robba plays about being the “roaming fielder” and finds a trophy, a radiosonde from the NWS hanging in the trees, he then continues on in earnest trying to confuse any mules. Trailhugger, Hobbit and the Piewhore stays “local”, in a different timezone. At the end of the hunt, on Stayaway, a scrapeline with associated rubs are finally discovered! It appears that life does exist in those woods. Crew vows to return to hunt said beast ‘o da woods!

Sunday: Exhausted crew hunts Marsh, then other “Bunny Hill”. Does observed, with minor scrapes and rubs. Buck II now is located and is placed in queue for another day.

  • Bucks: 0
  • Does: 2
  • Flags: ?
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2010 Second Weekend Post Report

Friday: Leaddog gets in woods to 10pt corner watch. Rain-sleet-snow begins, and doesn’t end until watch was left after five hours of admiring the apparent lifeless forest. At 1000hrs, a flock of Chik-a-dees moves through the watch going uphill, and at 1400hrs they returned, traveling in the opposite direction through the watch. It was nice to see life!

Saturday: Crew hunts to Hilton, then to Red Pail, then the big drive back to Billy’s Watch, where the Pie-Whore waited in fine fashion for the men to come through. No mules observed, no scrapes or rubs.

Sunday: Crew hunts “Bunny Hill”, no mules. Crew of four remains to hunt part two of the Bunny Hills, where a flag was finally observed. Nothing else.

  • Bucks: 0
  • Does: 0
  • Flags: 1