Thread: DIY Questions from a Canadian

Originally Posted by Timberdoodle

Thanks for all of your responses so far. Super helpful, and I really appreciate the insights & advice.

As far as finding potential spots, does the SPOT-X book generally get people in the ballpark of where they can start to burn boot-leather & glass trying to find game? Same question for the DOC hunting block finder? Or, would it just be best to tell the heli pilot to drop me where they've seen concentrations of game, and not concentrations of people?

I have a few different tents I could bring. If you were to get flown into the tops & dropped for a week, would you want a seek outside 6 man tipi with or without titanium stove (I've seen it hold up to 90kph winds with good anchors & secured guy lines) for a comfortable base, or an argali absaroka 4p with/without Ti Stove for a hot tent with a little bit lower profile & ease of transport, or just a neat & easy TarpTent Scarp2 to keep things simple?

https://seekoutside.com/6-person-tipi-pre
https://argalioutdoors.com/en-ca/col...44094762516709
https://www.tarptent.com/product/scarp-2/

Others covering your questions quite well.

But I’ll just add in don’t have the expectation that using a helicopter is getting you off the beaten path- more so on the West Coast. Once you exclude national parks and wilderness areas (outside the ballots), then take into account the actual amount of spots a helicopter can land in the remaining terrain within the tahr distribution then there is only really a finite amount of spots they can drop you. The heli operators are definitely a good bet to put you onto an area with animals and when on a limited time frame it saves beating the feet. But my point is don’t expect to be getting dropped into some rarely hunted catchment.