What to wear for September Wyoming elk hunt

[Owlgrowler]

Sunscreen. Where I bowhunted elk last Sept, Jackson area, it was hot and sunny almost every day and the tops of my ears got so burned and itchy I vowed to never go without some sunscreen again.

All good advice above, got to go prepared for anything. After the second day of last years hunt, and no sign of a break in the hot weather, I pared my packweight down a bit by not carrying my packable rain jacket, an afternoon thunderstorm would have felt great!!

[chanumpa]

Im with Whip and Shed on this one.Definately merino wool,good boots, and a good light packable rain coat.Load up your pack,until you get it were you think you could live out of it for a couple days.Tat lil rain coat can be a real life saver,esp.with merino underneath it.Be prepared to have everthing you own on in the morning and down to a t-shirt by 11A.M.,and how you are going to practically pack it.Have seen storms roll in the high country there that were serious!

[chanumpa]

Oh yeah,Practice shooting with that loaded up pack on too.Standing ,nealing,crouching.Make sure that pack is quiet too.

[njloco]

I'll definitely keep this info. in mind, I'm lucky to live close to Gil Verwey, some of you might remember his recent post about doing a self elk hunt in Colorado, so I'll be picking his brain first chance I get.

Thanks, and Happy New Year.

[Mike Yancey]

Nothing but wool on this hunt Rick, I Take two pair of wool pants and rotate every other day. A pair of Smart-Wool socks for each day and a pair of good dry boots for walking. I also put a pack type rain coat in my pack for when I need it and ware a layer of a wool shirt, under shirt, wool vest and wool sweater and add or take off as needed. It can get real bad real fast where we are going, plan for a couple of days of snow.

[Roughrider]

The versitality of wool does make it hard to beat in the mountains.  About the only thing I would add, is that if it's not wet, I usually wear lightweight running-type or cross trainer shoes. I usually wear a pair of lightweight Merrels or something similar. Maybe I have strong ankles or something, but have never had a problem wearing lightweight shoes - it's  alot easier to hike ten miles in a pair of shoes weighing ounces, than shoes weighing pounds!  The heavy, stiff "hiking" boots, are in my opinion, worthless for hunting - heavy, clumsy and noisy.  May work for packing meat, but not for hunting.