Work has been crazy busy this summer. Getting ready to head out the door pouring concrete curb, nighshift in somerset PA.

Hung a trail cam this morning...muggy

Sitting here eating looking at fall pics on the computer...All areas I frequent and hunt...talk about putting an ache in your chest!

Lord willing in a few weeks i'll be carrying my bow down this trail...I have a DMAP tag for the area.

Lets head over the mt from thickhead...and hunt Bear meadows area for a bit...make sure you have your muck boots

grab a cup of coffee wind down your window...lets take a drive in the Bald Eagle State forest.

Beautiful pics!! The second one reminds me of some of the places I hunt in the Adirondacks, Muck boots and all. Thanks for sharing Shade.

Life's short as often as you can, leave the ATV in the garage, put on a good pair of boots, and go for a walk. prop that bow on the ground and enjoy the views...I have a 3B doe tag I'll be looking out over here sometime this fall.

Very pretty place!

This ones for you Jeff Durnell!!

Potter county. Love hunting up there, doubtful i'll have time though this year. To many other places to hunt.

One of my favorite places to camp and hunt and fish...Along Penns creek World renowned trout fishing, I will be there (Lord willing) this fall.

Just what I needed. I love it!

This is one of the trails headed out behind camp.

Thought you might like the Potter county one Jeff. Good luck up there this fall.

One more of the Bald Eagle and this boy needs to get out the door and go pour some concrete!

Thanks bud. You too. Enjoy your autumn.

I have a 16 foot tall ladder stand next to this camera. This hog and deer hung around each other for 3 pictures..usually deer run from the hogs.

Really puts me in the mood! Thanks for sharing. I wish I lived closer to Potter. So beautiful~ ~Wojo

The Alberta foothills near Grande Cache coming right up.

DDave

Thanks for sharing great pictures, I'm sure you'll get more than a few in the mood for fall season & bow hunting.

nice pictures hiding inside from the humid 90º -were refreshing

I start to really feel the itch about this time of year too. Still got a month and a half here until opening day, but it's nice to look forward to.

I've got a feeling It's going to be a long month and a half for us, woodshavins.

Awesome pictures, thanks again!

Great pictures everyone's!

I love whete you hunt shade. Reminds me of where I hunt

Ditto, great pictures for sure :-) JF

I'm ready shade Mt. I'm ready. This cool mornings last week had me itchin!

I took this picture November 3, 2016 while waking to my stand after work. I shot my buck an hour after I took this picture.

Shade, that Bear Meadows looks like good moose habitat too. I'm looking forward to this kinda weather and hunting scene. I'll show this pic again, have one other time. A bull moose hangs around here so they say. Central Adirondacks.

It is 51F out right now. Yeehawww!!! I live for the period between now (Third week of August) through Jan. No bugs, beautiful colors, snow, and colder weather. G'bye summer, its been real, its been fun, but not REAL FUN. Bring this on!

Great pics Steve. Sometimes I take for granted just how beautiful out Pa. mountains are. Thanks.

A quick shot of our neighbor to the south.

Now ya got me started..

Great pics guys,I can smell those autumn woods and feel the chill in the air. Hope to get to God's Country, Pa. this year a little. Beautiful!!!!

Wow. Such beautiful pictures. Really nice up that way. Hot and nasty here in Texas.......makes me REALLY want to move North after I retire...In 13 long years. I grew up in Texas and I am no doubt a Texas boy, but this heat gets OLD. You wont see views like the ones above in Texas either. Thanks for sharing all. Have a blessed day!

Kayak, I love that PA Canyon. Killed my bear up there in 2009. Little SLate run. Shot that bear right along Pine Creek.

Thanks y'all for the great pics!

Signed, Droolin in Indy.

I'm there in my mind

ShadeHaven, Only been there once, and not for real long, just long enough to hike down into it (Pine Cr) and back, but it sure looked like great places to hunt. Remote and vast, and kinda steep in places. But accessible due to the run next to the river. I'd go again.

TrapperKayak.....The Adirondacks are my kind of hunting. LOVE IT.

Shade, Me too. There are more deer now than in the past, and a lot of turkeys too believe it or not. Its gorgeous during Sept and early Oct., but leaves drop earlier than here in the Mohawk Valley, and hunting is more difficult, which is a draw for guys like you. If I had more time, I'd be there more often too. I want to find a moose shed up there sometime, and take a nice mountain buck, and bear. Maybe this year - may try to get up there more. This is from the top of Bald Mt., a little short hike just out of Old Forge. But nice views of the Chain Lakes. Lots and lots of deer (and bear) in this general area (esp. in town once season opens..) :)

'nuther one of the 'dacks for you 'shade' guys. Deep in the High Peaks area. Cascade Mt. Trail.

Really nice pics, thanks for the eye candy.

You guys are killing me, but what a way to go. Thanks for all the great pics!

These are some beautiful pics guys. Thanks for sharing and keep them coming.

"SNUFFER"

some beautiful country there for sure. You guys are good photographers......

Great post! Here are a couple of pics from last hunting season.

Springtime, PA canyon. I can't get enough of it

Homey, those are perfect conditions. Nice!

Thanks trapper! Great time to be in the woods! I can't wait for the season! Keep the pictures coming!

Its funny every year about this time My body can sense fall right around the corner, despite the fact that Mid Aug can be pretty warm.

Trapper....The "Dacks" are an incredible place although PA has some truly beautiful and rugged places and lots of public land.

The Adirondack mts are the reigning king of the East. I would take a hard earned big Adirondack mt buck ANY DAY over a Midwest Pope and Young.

Mt marcy Adirondack mts....

My mind is never too far from the field.

Shade, those are beautiful pics of Marcy. I haven't been on top of that since college days. Went up Rooster Comb and Cascade (in pic) more recently and saw it though. It was socked in in this pic, but the time before it was open.

Whiteface from town. There are a lot of deer around the other side near a place along the

Au Sable River.

Meanwhile, closer to home, yesterday morning before the eclipse. I'm ready too.

Back in the Moose River Plains. It now lives up to its name. 700 or so in NY now.

I keep coming back for another look, beautiful pics.

Shade, I was born and raised in the Adirondacks and there's no place I'd rather hunt. Way fewer deer than we have here in the central part of NY, but a way different experience, too. I don't get up there as much as I'd like these days, but I'm usually able make a few two or three day trips each year. I used to spend a week, sometimes two, camping up there every year. Good times!

Ok, I'll play. A pic of my happy hunting ground.

Hey Jeff, where was that pic taken?

Here's one of the Zoar Valley in Cattaraugus Co., NY. Looks like good hunting. Its kinda remote too.

I envy you Yanks, you have some beautiful country. Hope I can get up to see it some day.

Some pics just put those butterflies in the stomach. I saw Grizz pic and reminds me of my hunting ground. Love those days when sun is casting all those shadows.

Steve, if you asking me were yours was taken, I'd say on pine circle, if you where mine was, Behind my house.jeff

Jeff,I was asking about your pic. Mine was on a branch on family land here at the foot of Kiamichi mountain (north side) south of Muse.

William, I know what you mean. I never tire of it.

Back yard Falls a coming quick!

I turkey hunted just east of Muse on warehouser land in the 80's

Turkey are scarce these days. They've never recovered from the long term drought back a few years. Poaching don't help. Probably more birds out your way. I'll see if I can dig up some more pics.

I think in Pennsylvania we are so lucky to have so much forested land to roam. Even here in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains there are places to get away, albeit not as remote as the northern section of the state. Some areas withing ten minutes of my home.

Mountain Man, always love seeing your pics.

George, not many houses around there - nice. Grizz, yours looks pretty nice too. That woods pic is great. I saw some footage of the Norman area. It looked beautiful there.

One of my favorite trails to the top of Buffalo Mountain.

I really want to get up there and see that someday George.

That last pic reminds me of the Texas hill country.

The marker Beech on the bench on Buffalo.

One of the many spring-fed rills on the mountain.

Oops, 5th pic down

More Adirondacks. Won't be long now...

My side porch view in November.

TrapperKayak, we have a lake that is nearly identical to that photo...surrounded by 49,000 acres of State Game Lands.

Part of a spring seep on Buffalo Mountain.

Come on up Grizz! I got a guest camper ; ) Early Bear is in September,,plenty of ground blinds and tree stands Just built a new guest bathroom too

Well every once in awhile them pictures come out little screwy Bring the fly rod,,,great Brownys to be had,,or theres a 20mile long deep water lake a mile away,,in land salmon,lake trout northern pike etc

George, that one is Nick's Lake just out of Old Forge inside the Ad Park. It has some nice fishing and a lot of deer and bear in the area. For being that close to the tourist area, it is often not too crowded. It does have a good size campground. MM, that is nice looking water, and a great looking hardwoods-rubbed buck. The Northeast ain't too bad, eh?

Mountain Man, I'll make it there someday.

The post oaks are loaded this year.

Kiamichi mountain seen from the foot of Winding Stair mountain. The valley is wet and green this year. Lots of rain and mild temps.

Great pictures guys. Makes me miss the woods... makes me want to explore new places... and I've been doing that quite a bit this year.

I believe I've hunted that very same pond. Gets a lot of traffic.

Posts with these type photos are my favorite posts. Thanks for posting guys.

This is not mine, someone posted it on Bowsite last year. But it is in the top five of my favorite pictures anywhere.

Grizz that last pic looks like it could be central PA in the Ridge and valley region.

Shade, there are a lot of similarities. George made comment on one of my roves a while back how it looked like PA. It's probably a lot hotter and dryer though. I love mountains of all types, Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma are beautiful (imo)and I think PA &NY would be even more so.

Another 'Grand Canyon of the East', Letchworth.

Meanwhile, closer to home. This is typical country around where I live. I grew up in the valley beyond the barn. My cousin saw two big bucks last week a mile from this spot.

This one is over back, where I hunt. It is a regular holdout for deer, and the turkeys roost in the trees across the field. I've taken four toms and two 8 pointers and a doe from that woods. Missed a bunch of other turkeys by a fletch a year and half ago (head shooting).

From my turkey stand - fall and spring.

Field across the road where I have a couple stands. The woods beyond is where the 7 abandoned ladder stands are, available for my use uninterrupted it I choose to. I usually choose not to.

I hit the 7 point from the ground stand (A spot I cleared in the firs) just left of the willows last fall. I think he is still roaming about.

There's a bear in them there woods! Just down our road across to the west side of the main highway is this 'new' bear's hide out. Who ever would have thought a bear would be living a mile from our house? He's been spotted several times, and was even featured on a local tv new channel. There was a young bull moose in this field a few years ago too.

Then there's this gem where I see deer everytime I hunt there. This year maybe I score one with cedar stick there.

Our house is behind those trees. The biggest buck I've taken in NY was in the corner of this lot, just on the other side of the trees to the right. I arrowed a nice big tom out of that spot too.

Yup, so ready... Credence - Looking out my back door. Deer trail is right through woods behind dog kennel in middle. Interstate whitetail...

Turkeys there too. Bring on the fall!

From our front yard looking across road to fields where I hunt. The 'gem' spot is just to the left, within a couple hundred yards from the house. But it goes on for another two miles, and four or five miles to the right - its about 7 or 8 sections of county land, not posted. True timbered wilderness and swamps back behind those fields. Bucks love it.

I just opened this thread. All I can say is wow. Great photos top to bottom. Thanks.

Woah! Killer shot!

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