We look forward to this trip every year its a 8 day backpacking trip in to the wilderness area of northern California. We arrived to camp the day before the opener and went out to are favorite glassing points and saw  a lot of deer and some really good bucks by the way it looked we know that this was going to be a great year come Saturday mooring the hills where crawling with people hunting the lower parts of the mountains.I have never seen so many people back that far in the 8yrs that Ihave been back their. I guess the word is out about the quality of deer in the area.

on are way in

As the week went on a lot of glassing and even some blown stocks

After about the fifth day we had some success with this great buck that rough scored 110 P&Y

We had tree days left so we stared glassing some more

On the last evening i was able to connect on a nice buck

 buck rough scores 94 P&Y

This was a great trip after a rough start we where able to come out with two great bucks.

Opening week in California did not let us down with the temperature reaching 105 degree’s. 
  My buddy was able to put a good buck down. As I drew the sort straw on this one.  Justin and I put a plane in motion to make a stalk he was able to cut the distance in half to make a great shoot at 58 yrd.

As the week whent on and the temperature keept creeping up I was able to catch a glimps of the buck Im after