okiegman
New member
For the past 20 years or so my high school best friend and I have taken a weeklong bow hunting trip to Colorado for Elk. We've done it just about every way imaginable from packing camp in on our backs (when we were younger) to our current state which is a truck, trailer (mobile butcher shop) and sherpa tent.
This past summer, with the help of some wonderful MOA members (you know who you are) my buddy picked up a 2014 BMW K1600GTL-E. He had owned Harley's years ago but had been out of riding for some time.
Our typical hunting day starts at about 4:30am when we crawl out of a perfectly warm sleeping bag and shuffle around to get our cold hunting clothes on. Out into the woods we go, well before sunrise in search of the ever-elusive Wapiti (Shawnee Indian name for Elk meaning white rump). We usually return to camp mid to late morning to cook and eat breakfast and then hang around camp until the evening hunt (about 3pm) "throwing rocks at grasshoppers" as we like to say.
A few weeks before we left my buddy calls me and says "why don't we take our bikes?" The idea was to ride bikes in the middle of the day (our camp is close to a main road at 10,800' - we climb and hunt from there). The idea was to have something other than "throwing rocks at grasshoppers" to beat the middle of the day doldrums. We've also always wanted to take a day off in the middle of the hunt to relax and recover (we're both lowlanders and starting your hunt, carrying a bow and a pack at 10,800' and climbing from there wears us out after a few days) but what to do for relaxation?
Violá - enter a R1200GSA and K1600GTL-E
This past summer, with the help of some wonderful MOA members (you know who you are) my buddy picked up a 2014 BMW K1600GTL-E. He had owned Harley's years ago but had been out of riding for some time.
Our typical hunting day starts at about 4:30am when we crawl out of a perfectly warm sleeping bag and shuffle around to get our cold hunting clothes on. Out into the woods we go, well before sunrise in search of the ever-elusive Wapiti (Shawnee Indian name for Elk meaning white rump). We usually return to camp mid to late morning to cook and eat breakfast and then hang around camp until the evening hunt (about 3pm) "throwing rocks at grasshoppers" as we like to say.
A few weeks before we left my buddy calls me and says "why don't we take our bikes?" The idea was to ride bikes in the middle of the day (our camp is close to a main road at 10,800' - we climb and hunt from there). The idea was to have something other than "throwing rocks at grasshoppers" to beat the middle of the day doldrums. We've also always wanted to take a day off in the middle of the hunt to relax and recover (we're both lowlanders and starting your hunt, carrying a bow and a pack at 10,800' and climbing from there wears us out after a few days) but what to do for relaxation?
Violá - enter a R1200GSA and K1600GTL-E