{"id":282,"date":"2014-09-30T11:33:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:17:05","slug":"after-work-scouting-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/2014\/09\/after-work-scouting-mission.html","title":{"rendered":"After Work Hunting Scouting in Bozeman, MT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Embarked on a quick scouting mission to a potential hunting zone last evening after work. Took the Land Cruiser to the trailhead, rode the fatbike to the end of the trail, and then hiked an off-trail ridge to within 15 minutes of sunset. Glassed for game until sunset (spotted three elk) and then hightailed it back downhill arriving at my truck in the last minutes of twilight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140929_182719.jpg\" alt=\"20140929_182719\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140929_175553.jpg\" alt=\"20140929_175553\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140929_181455.jpg\" alt=\"20140929_181455\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140929_183348.jpg\" alt=\"20140929_183348\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140929_185634.jpg\" alt=\"20140929_185634\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140929_191127.jpg\" alt=\"20140929_191127\" \/><\/p>\n<p>#BBD0E0<br \/>\n\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embarked on a quick scouting mission to a potential hunting zone last evening after work. Took the Land Cruiser to the trailhead, rode the fatbike to the end of the trail, and then hiked an off-trail ridge to within 15 minutes of sunset. Glassed for game until sunset (spotted three elk) and then hightailed it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/2014\/09\/after-work-scouting-mission.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;After Work Hunting Scouting in Bozeman, MT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,34,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-trips","category-hiking","category-hunting","category-montana"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}