Chris,
The area I'm riding is about 50 miles 'as the crow flys' due west of Albuquerque. The mountain is called Mt. Taylor. Its the area I elk hunt, but a beautiful area, both summer and winter. It can get really cold up there. I have some friends up there right now hunting elk. Its a Cow Elk rifle hunt, they don't allow rifle hunting for bulls in that unit, its considered 'primitive arms'....bow or muzzleloader hunts only for bulls.

Talk the wife into letting you take the camera with, you just need to have a good bag. I was using a LowePro Offtrail 2 hip pack. My camera, the Canon 20D costs $1500, the Canon 17-40mm L lens costs another $750 and I was using a 4GB Microdrive, which cost me around $200. So I was carrying about $2500 in gear. I also pack my Canon 70-200mm L f2.8 Image Stabilized lens in another tube, it cost over $1600. Expensive hobby.

There are plenty of point-and-shoot camera's out there that take great pics and are pretty cheap now. I need to get another one to put in my pack when I go hunting...

dave

 

I was it Sanfe NM a couple of years ago ... it's one of the most beautiful places in the country, but a little hard to fly into at 8500 feet. Thanks for the info on the camera bag, I’m going this week to find one!

 

How do you think my 300 Express would do in the winter with the stock tires, and only 2wd [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif[/img]

 

You can cruise along in 2wd up to about 4-6 inches of snow without too much problem unless you need to climb some....then you'll be spinning the rear tires

 

ah,,,,snow

that looks fun[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

How does the machine run in those temps at over 10K feet? I can definately see why you went with the EFI[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

The EFI is definitely the advantage at those altitudes....it runs great, although in the deep snow and on the throttle alot and spinning tires in 4wd, I could smell some belt slippage.....The dealer did tell that running alot of throttle at high altitude that I can smoke a belt....not sure what altitude would have with it, I'll query him more when i'm in there next time....

 

wow.. have to say that place is by far awesome.. i wish i had some snow to ride in its the best time of the year for me... if i had an EFI i would definatly be up in the mountains

 

Did you get that winshield from Polaris? It looks like the one at the Cabelas web site.

 

I got it from Polaris Link

If you get it from somewhere else, make sure its the 'lock and ride', like I said before it comes off in 15 seconds and goes on in slightly longer time....that way you don't have to tow the 4-wheeler on the trailer with it on and get crap all over it....

I looked at the ones on Cabela's, not the same. The Polaris one is cutout for the headlight pod and it is a quick release.

dave