SWDesertRat

Depends how bad you want it.Losing 50lbs is huge, awesome job! The discipline will be the toughest. Look into buying a couple different excercise bands, one a medium to heavy depending on how tight it is and one medium to light. You will be limited on all the excercises you can do, but arms, chest, legs and back are all possible in your hotel room with the bands. You can also do alot of excercises with your own body weight. Cardio will be the hard part but even walking for 40-60 minutes will help you out. Walk fast, break a sweat. Ask for the top floor in the hotel and take the stairs. Become a picky eater, make the conscious choice of foods that wont be gut bombs and cause you to rather sit on the couch rather than excercise in your room. Start thinking about portion control too; worse part about traveling is most of the food at restaurants comes on big plates. I dislike wasting food but I also dislike being uncomfortably full. So either pick the smaller sized meals, lots of places now have 'the lighter side' fares or ask for a box with your meal and as soon as your meal arrives cut it in half and put half in the box to go. Reward yourself, have a food cheat day. Youll find that youll look forward to it but as time goes on you might not hit it as hard as you did at first cuz it sucks that much more the next day getting back into the routine with all that stuff in your gut. Keep a log of your excercises, make it fun. Track what states or cities youve worked out in. Also, have a buddy that helps keep you motivated and focused. You need to want it. You can do it, stay focused, and dont beat yourself up when you miss a day. Hardest part is the decision to start, once you make it a routine and habit, itll be easier to keep.

Oh I completely agree with you about awareness of land designation...as tax payers, voters and especially as hunters and anglers (people directly footing the bill for on the ground conservation) we should pay close attention to how the designations affect future generations as well as what we try to do now. I'm guilty as the next guy whining about things on a forum but when it comes down to informing the policy makers I find other personal, work etc reasons to take my attention and keeping me from actually voicing my opinion or concerns. Anyways...I ramble too much. Maybe our posts will help keep this thread at the top though so more will pay attention. Thanks for the dialogue Alpine..

You mean a wilderness or conservation area being changed to non wilderness designation? Without me doing additional research, Id have to say no. To my knowledge once a primitive, wilderness, or conservation area has been designated it has not been 'undesignated'. However what I did mean in my post is that the land management agencies were are required by the wilderness act to do wilderness designation reviews on their forests or land. They will have certain pieces of acreage without roads (or maybe with roads that can be closed) and meeting the primary essential elements of wilderness designation. Once these areas are identified and selected, the public process is started( public meetings, etc) and final determination. Congress can also get involved in wilderness designations but Im not familiar with that. Wish I could give you more info, all Im stating is what I am familiar with what has been done.

The last two national monuments ( Agua Fria and Ironwood National Forest) were designated in Az, are multi use and hunting is allowed, as are atv and utvs. Wilderness designation by forest and blm gets reviewed on an cyclical basis, as long as a roadless area meets the primary components it can be designated. Wilderness designation is a public process, where we can all (and should) provide feed back to the land management agency. whereas national monument designation is executive order....and the managing agency is forced to deal with the new designation and create management plans etc. Im not sayings its right or wrong, Id just like the facts to be clear on perception vs facts.

Traded.. Thanks

It's biological soil crust or also known as cryptobiotic soil, it's cool to see it turn green after the rain or if you pee on it. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_soil_crust

I've bought them from Auto parts stores, you can also pick them up from Amazon. You likely know this but buy them for your tire size. If it's going to be really hairy, run all 4. Ive generally run lower profile on the fronts (cables vs rear chains) so that when I turned it won't hit my frame or rub the wheel wells or hit the upper ball joint and/or control arm <--but this depends on your back spacing and most of the time you should be fine with OEM Toyota rims/tires. Also, for the most part you can get away with running only rear chains, fronts will help when you need to pull on grades or extra traction in slick or icy conditions. Also buy extra rubber bungee cords as they will help with any additional tightening you need to do. Best thing is put the chains on before you need them and practice before you are in the snow. Some of the newer hybrid are pretty slick on and off and you barely need to hug the tires to get them on. Sounds like a fun trip in January.

Bump for a nice gun

Awesome job with making the most of the time you had. Neat country. Thanks for sharing

Both of these units will provide what you're looking for without having to drive to a southern unit, and are 1.5 hours (max of 2 hours for northern end of 19b) drive from valley and have decent pig herds. Good luck, let us know what unit you draw.

great job Shelvin, It was awesome to watch you keep the bow drawn for so long as well as the incredible job you did repositioning yourself and moving to the right while at full draw with an incoming bull. You rocked it under pressure. You earned that bull for sure. Thank you for posting the video and kudos to the guys for putting that video together so well.

Great shots! I wondered if you had gotten out. Thanks for sharing.

No sir. That's why I'm selling them.

Looks like the south east side of Bradshaws.

Stud bull Shelvin. Excellent job on a tough hunt.

Oh come on! There should be a spoiler alert for those of us that haven't had a chance to watch the video yet. Edit: enjoyed the video. Looking forward to your next one. Thanks for sharing your hunt..

Looks like a night snake, has the vertical pupils. Cool snake This link has some good info http://www.reptilesofaz.org/Snakes-Subpages/h-h-chlorophaea.html

Bump for a solid bow and a good guy. I think G5 makes some solid bows and they don't get enough attention.

Great pics! Thanks for sharing. You know the person running the other cam across from yours? It'd be cool to see those cats and owl from two different angles.

Bump for some super nice glass.

Sounds like a great trip. Glad you enjoyed NM and thanks for the report. Nothing wrong with staying in Az, it's a good state too.

Well??...

Here you go http://www.coueswhitetail.com/forums/topic/50633-lets-call-this-the-no-tag-drawing-sale/?fromsearch=1

Yep. The guys with bounced checks that sent in paper apps don't get a second chance.

Black footed ferrets rarely live in locations without prairie dogs, or outside of grasslands. I am confident that it was an Arizona weasel, a subspecies variation of the long-tailed weasel. The picture below was pulled off the internet and I take no credit for it.