A slightly different adventure this time.......
It was time once again for my annual moose hunting trip with a few of Swiss guys I know. It is quite a ways to travel from Montreal to Northern B.C. but well worth it. It is so nice to sit on a stump in the middle of nowhere covered in dirt and think back to sitting in a nice crisply ironed white shirt in the warm confines of a flying computer thousands of feet above this earth. Out there there is no noise, no constant buzz, no horns, no.......nothing, just the sounds of nature. And the sound of my thunderstick as we got this moose! Moose were somewhat scarce to see this year but me managed to come home with one.
One of the guys with us is a butcher by trade so he does all the work to perfection. What would take me hours only takes him a matter of minutes. A fine skinner he is!
The lake we stay at is called Merton Lake. Last year we never fished the lake but this year we decided to give it a try. We could have ate fish all week this year. There is nothing like fresh rainbow trout cooked over a fire.
We had a beautiful campsite this year right on the lake. I should have taken a picture when we were all set up but this one is just after were were all packed up to leave.
I have only seen these big hunting tents in pictures but this year we erected ours. I at first thought that staying in the trailer was a luxury for me, but soon learned the tent with the warm stove inside was truly the place to be. It was toasty warm in the morning even being -10 outside. Maybe I will graduate to the tent one of these years.
Beautiful Merton Lake in the morning.
I came across this cabin deep in the woods one day. I still wonder how they got all the supplies out there to make this cabin. The 4 wheeler trail was a tough 2km in to this place. This cabin almost had it all. 2 beds, a cast iron stove, a double sink(no running water though), a 14 foot aluminum boat, motor, gas and a propane stove. It was situated on some lake but I couldn't find it on the map.
These guys I was with have been hunting together for 30 years. They have got it figured out. There are no paper plates or plastic wine glasses, that would not be right! There is no pork and beens or hot dogs on this trip, only swiss cheeses, fine salami's and bakery bread for lunch. For dinner we had pork chops and prime rib steaks, tortellini, moose liver thanks to the lucky hunt, 2 nights of grouse, fresh rainbow trout and when we were really roughing it a couple racks of lamb. Our cook makes this lamb mouth watering. Only the finest of red or white wines were served in which you have a bottomless cup. Did I mention dessert? It was tough to come back to the real world. Who would have thought one could eat better 100 miles in the bush than at home!
Of course the scnapps. What would hunting be with a bunch of Swiss fellers and no scnapps. Well, there was plenty for all. A wonderful nitecap after supper/ dessert....and if you had a tummy-ache (for those who know of this term).
One of the guys with us is a butcher by trade so he does all the work to perfection. What would take me hours only takes him a matter of minutes. A fine skinner he is!
The lake we stay at is called Merton Lake. Last year we never fished the lake but this year we decided to give it a try. We could have ate fish all week this year. There is nothing like fresh rainbow trout cooked over a fire.
We had a beautiful campsite this year right on the lake. I should have taken a picture when we were all set up but this one is just after were were all packed up to leave.
I have only seen these big hunting tents in pictures but this year we erected ours. I at first thought that staying in the trailer was a luxury for me, but soon learned the tent with the warm stove inside was truly the place to be. It was toasty warm in the morning even being -10 outside. Maybe I will graduate to the tent one of these years.
Beautiful Merton Lake in the morning.
I came across this cabin deep in the woods one day. I still wonder how they got all the supplies out there to make this cabin. The 4 wheeler trail was a tough 2km in to this place. This cabin almost had it all. 2 beds, a cast iron stove, a double sink(no running water though), a 14 foot aluminum boat, motor, gas and a propane stove. It was situated on some lake but I couldn't find it on the map.
These guys I was with have been hunting together for 30 years. They have got it figured out. There are no paper plates or plastic wine glasses, that would not be right! There is no pork and beens or hot dogs on this trip, only swiss cheeses, fine salami's and bakery bread for lunch. For dinner we had pork chops and prime rib steaks, tortellini, moose liver thanks to the lucky hunt, 2 nights of grouse, fresh rainbow trout and when we were really roughing it a couple racks of lamb. Our cook makes this lamb mouth watering. Only the finest of red or white wines were served in which you have a bottomless cup. Did I mention dessert? It was tough to come back to the real world. Who would have thought one could eat better 100 miles in the bush than at home!
Of course the scnapps. What would hunting be with a bunch of Swiss fellers and no scnapps. Well, there was plenty for all. A wonderful nitecap after supper/ dessert....and if you had a tummy-ache (for those who know of this term).
3 Comments:
Pablina is impressed with the photography, let alone the moose, wow it dropped immediately obviously judging by its four legs, now I see how hard it would have been to get out of there without cutting it up, nice to have a butcher on hand.
I liked the last picture, the "spices" for cooking, after reading the adventure, I think a lot of people would willingly travel from Montreal to Northern BC for that kind of hunting trip. And yes, I can just imagine "hearing" the silence......soul cleansing...
Nice work! I haven't had a good schnapps in a damn long time!! When you told me you went hunting...I thought you were actually roughing it...rack of lamb!?? Planning any hunting trips to Toronto soon???
You make hunting sound like fun! I might even consider it in the future... maybe it is just the schnapps that makes your hunting experience sound so inviting (the prime rib too).
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