legendary/mystical hunting spots you haven't been to yet?

[ozy clint]

i was thinking today on the drive home from work about a spot i was told about but haven't been to yet.
an old boss of mine in weipa, cape york in far north queensland, who is an old guru hunter and fisherman up there once told me about a spring up in the ranges west of weipa in a very isolated part of an already isolated region. he went in there to hunt and fish. he called it 'the garden' because it was lush and rainforest like oasis amongst the dry savannah. he told of catching loads of sooty grunter and jungle perch and hunting pigs there.

for whatever reason i never got to go and check it out but one day i want to head in there and find it just to say i've been there and kill a boar and catch a fish!

have you ever been told about a spot but haven't been there yet and have formed in your own mind what it must look like and has it become a bit of a personal spot of legend or mystique? it seems as time goes by that the imagination endears more and more mystery which fuels more excitment to go see.

did you get to one and was disappointed or had your expectations exceeded?

         

[term]

Little delta

[calgarychef]

Ohh boy Clint, this is a great subject, and a nice respite from talking about bows.

The Nahini river in Canada's north west territories comes to mind.  The Willmore wilderness area in Alberta is another spot, lots of my buddies hunt there but its a long drive for me and I've got some nice spots close by.  

I've been lucky so far to hunt in some of the "fabled" Alberta areas.  When I was young I heard of the "Ya Ha Tinda" and what an elk Mecca it was, I finally went there and the stories weren't exaggerated.

There was a spot near the milk river in southern alberta that I found.  It was far from water and in this little coulee was a patch of trees that the mule deer could hide in and a spring.  The bottom of the coulee was littered with mule deer sheds and its obviously a year round hang out.  It was an absolutely magical spot.  I've told others about it so I suppose that's a spot like you mention, except that it's in the minds eye of others now.  Some day I want to get back there but until then it remains my little garden of Eden like you describe.

[centaur]

I would like to go back to the Two Ocean Pass area in NW Wyoming. I hunted it years ago, but it still calls to me. To get there, at least at my age, you have to have horses; it is about 20 miles from the nearest road. Great country.
I still love the Absaroka Mts in Wyoming; lots of elk, great fishing, and really wild country for the lower 48.
Where i haven't hunted but yearn to is Alaska. Southeast for black bears, or the interior for caribou. Finances may make that a hunt only in my mind. There is no place like Alaska, unless it is the Yukon or NW Territories, all of which are awesome.
So many places, so little time.

[ChuckC]

There are a lot of places that I haven't been to or hunted, many of them would be great.  I guess I am kinda easy cause often I get a huge kick out of little things, getting to the top and finding a vast meadow full of wild flowers, or chipmunks playing almost over my feet,  a stream with some nice trout just right over there. . ., and I like to see some bigger critters too.

ChuckC

[TX FLY CASTER]

For me the Yukon has always been the dream.....bush plane in , drop camped ,two weeks hunting moose would be as good as it gets for me. A close second would be Alaska for Caribou. Although flyfishing Patagonia or New Zealand would be ok too...........lol

[ron w]

Any place that I have never been.....