The FT Guides Team Blog

A quick story on one of the cooler wildlife experiences of my life. As many of you know, Amy and I live in the epicenter of cat country. Our family’s hunting lodge sits in a cliffed in area, against a massive wilderness area, and there …

Every year guests ask us about physical fitness and our high elevation wilderness hunts. It’s an easy question to answer. Hiking a minimum of several miles a day, dealing with inclement weather, and coming to 11,000 ft. from sea level will present a challenge. Physical …

I hope everyone had a good holiday season and the start of the New Year has treated all of our past and prospective guests well. We have been busy with the start of booking season, much busier than in previous years. I want to let …

Do you really care if you can tell the difference between a 190″ and a 215″ deer? Me neither. In those situations, I just shoot it! It is more useful when hunting public land to know how to judge a 2-3 year old deer from …

We had tracked this big mulie buck for four hundred yards from the shot. Zero sign of blood on the fresh snow. The trail was now steep shale rock and just kept getting worse. Stan and I decided to sit down to catch our breath. …

We are already taking camps out and there is still no snow on the ground! It’s a weird year up here in the high country. The rut started late and never really got heated, and we’ve only had two days of precipitation so far in …

The FTWG crew was busy this weekend putting our remote summer camp into the Flat Tops Wilderness Area. The camp is a good 15 mile, roughly 5 hour, ride into the wilderness. We had a lot of work to do, but we did get a …

I just finished up on our 2014 hunting gear lists. Our updated lists are always kept HERE. Keep in mind that over the years thousands of elk and mule deer have been harvested by hunters in Carhartt vests and blue jeans with lever action 30-30s. …