of wild meat depends primarily on
two things; first, it must be in good
condition when it is killed, and
second, one must handle the meat
properly after cleaning and dressing
the animal. It should have plenty of
time to undergo a cooling off process.
Most hunters know that it has to be
hung a while to insure those tender,
juicy steaks that even give an appetite
to the sedentary office type that
spends half his life in a swivel chair.

Tulameen Watershed

Last fall, I was doing some work in
the Tulameen watershed, some 20
miles northwest of Princeton, the
eastern terminus of the much pub-
licized Hope-Princeton Highway.

Princeton is the first town of any size
after the Kettle Valley line leaves the
main line of the C.P.R. at Hope; and
highway

while the swings south

A beautiful four-pointer

through the Manning Provincial Park
and then follows down the Similka-
meen River to Princeton, coming into
town from the south, the railroad
runs to the northeast from Hope, and
after making a big loop, eventually
follows down the Tulameen River to
where it joins the former stream at
Princeton. The area thus enclosed
between the highway and the road is
one of the best deer hunting districts
anywhere within an equal distance of
Vancouver, and is equally easy to
reach from the Okanagan and the
Kamloops region.

As the Manning Park is also a game

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FISH AND GAME — WINTER ISSUE

reserve, it forms a natural breeding
spot from which deer inevitably drift
out into adjoining country, thus
helping the natural increase to keep
up the supply. However, it is not
enough to merely drive into the dis-
trict, park your car, and hunt within
a mile or two of the road; everybody
can and many do just that; with an
outstanding lack of success. To get
good hunting and big, wily old bucks,
you have to go in after them.

There are two ways you can do this;
if you are flush, you can hire a pro-
fessional guide, with horses, and move
back several miles to set up camp well
off the roads passable by car. If you
have hunted enough so that you can
trust yourself to get along without a
guide, and are short on cash, you can
put some grub and a sleeping bag on
your back and walk in; establish a
camp well in to hunt from, and go
to it. With the second method, if you
don’t like the idea of back packing a
couple of hundred pounds of meat
five or ten miles out to your car, you
can hang it in a tree, walk out and get
a man with a packhorse to come in
and take it out.

Doug, my companion in_ the
country, and I were not on a hunting
trip; we were surveying; but we had
to go into the heart of the area to
make some observations. As we had
to take packhorses to carry instru-
ments and provisions, we had to have
a packer, for few men will let
strangers take their packhorses into
the mountains without sending a man
with them. Bert Manion, the packer,
was also a licensed guide, and we car-
ried a rifle; as the deer season was
open, we bought hunting licenses.
We intended to camp at Mt. Thynne,
and had arranged with the local
forestry officials to use the lookout
tower’s cabin facilities.

From the nearest car road to the
tower it is about 12 miles, all uphill,
over a fairly good pack trail. As it
hadn’t been used for some time, there
were quite a few windfalls across it in
some places, and to see the adroit way
that Bert threaded around and over
these obstructions was to realize that a
mountain pack train handler is a
highly specialized form of horseman-
ship. Incidentally, his skill in this re-
spect saved us considerable labor by
making it unnecessary to chop out a
lot of dead hemlock, which compares

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