How to Setup Based on WIND and THERMALS | Deer Hunting Mountain Bucks

So, but this is important, so understanding how wins and

thermals

work would really give you a bigger advantage than anything you can buy on the market when it comes to odor control, from just one definition of

wind

is simply defined . like the natural movement of air coming from a particular direction, that's what you'll typically see on your favorite weather app, like inside, whether it's on Spartan Forge or on Weatherchannel.com, all of those things are exactly what you're showing your

wind

that has nothing to do with

thermals

that is manipulated by terrain that is manipulated by objects that is manipulated by speed temperature pressure weather changes all those different factors, so it really just means that when you look at what that says No".

It doesn't necessarily mean that that will be the wind in the area where you want to hunt. Wind and thermals play a role in all types of

hunting

and that doesn't even mean, you know, in western

hunting

it can happen. flat AG terrain all that, but in the areas where the topography generally you can see those thermals run a little more exaggerated, I guess in those areas the warmer air is less dense and the cold air, so it will rise and when be cold and the same thing What happens with cold air coming down and the reason is that thermals normally rise in the mornings when the sun warms the

mountain

s and then cool down in the afternoons when the sun sets, but that's literally just a general rule depending on which side of the

mountain

you are on right now, you see there on that hill where it is still in shadow because of the cloud cover.

You can probably bet that some of those thermals will drop at that time. time, but as soon as the sun comes up, it gets so hot, it might change like that so you can move, think about it, the wind flows like a river and when it hits the trees and the rocks, it's doing different things. as it flows, if you are crossing and you have a hill here that is there and you have one here, it is a little bit higher as it crosses, it might be good to cross here, but it hits that other one, it can cause a little bit and this is very , very generic, the way I say it doesn't just come flying and hit you, but essentially what I'm saying is that higher grounds, lower grounds can influence how the airstream flows.

Those different areas I think we've already caught up a little bit, but bringing it home depending on what the thermals are doing there, what the wind is doing and how it's going to react depends on a lot of places I'm at. hunting, uh, under the trail, if I'm on a side hill covered in hemlock and I have a bank that runs by, I'll usually be almost at a high level with the

deer

in a saddle, I can stay behind him so I can I stay hidden, but I'm under that trail because those thermals are going down, it doesn't really matter what the wind direction is, so I'll stay under the trail in those situations, I found something good, that's pretty good. size bed right there leading out, we had that faint trail coming out of part of the larger Ridge system there and heading toward the edge of Laurel.

I mean, this is in the middle of there, but it's got a little bit of a visual down there, but a really, really nice bed and it's got some white hairs in it, just sitting there inside the bed. I think if you hit here more from the cover than from the wind from that vantage point, it's just a thick area. I have safety cover if you are getting hunting pressure from above or really any type of predator, it can jump right underneath and be able to escape, but I think this is more of a cover issue than a wind issue. bedding location, so the difference between wind and thermals is you know wind is what you look at when you watch the Weather Channel or you look at the weather on the Spartan Forge app, you're looking at those things and that's What dominates The wind is going well, what the thermals do is that as the air rises, as the ground begins to heat up, there begin to be updrafts that arrive, so that when the sun rises, they begin to have thermals uphill and as the sun sets. or somewhere in the shade or there is a cloud cover, the cooler places are going to cause a descending thermal.

There are a lot of different things that can affect thermals and winds with different types of vegetation with different objects that are in the way and you can almost think about how the wind flows is like a river and as it goes it can hit things and swirl and having hangovers and all these things, so it's a complex thing to be able to understand and be able to learn, but if you really pay attention to it and always carry milkweed with you, record those notes and your journal, include it within the Spartan Forge app so you can remember how you see that place, all you're doing is helping yourself when you're learning for the future, you're continually adding these things. and adding this knowledge base to your arsenal of tools to help you understand, okay?

Is this a place where I can really hunt? Know? I'm going to be scaring the

deer

because once the thermals take over or the thermal switch just something you really need to consider in the mountains when you're hunting anywhere else you're going to have thermals, even in flat area swamps in agricultural areas , you are going to have some thermals, but in the mountains it is very exaggerated and Those thermals are going to have a big impact on how you prepare and hunt, although the sun is on this hill at this point, it is still relatively early in the morning and with the slope we're on, it's probably going to take me a little while to get that uphill ride, so it'll probably start to turn a little bit in the first half hour and 45 minutes that I prepared or maybe even a little downhill as you see , the milkweed started to go down and then it started to appear like it was going back up and that's because in that transition mode we still have a lot of these shadows and things are a little bit cooler on this slope, but it's starting to warm up and is starting to do so. that and that's where you get some of those swirly conditions in the mountains.

This is an ideal

setup

for during the rut and we have a steep drop coming here below me to my right and then behind me we have a hard edge in vegetation we have some spruce trees and then we have thick beach scrub and then directly Below where I'm standing, there's an old logging road that goes around that deep cut that comes in with some big scratches down below, right at the edge of those fir trees and when I was exploring a little bit and I found some mass around that point and then around this point just below this level and the reason for being above the trail in this situation and even getting to this late in the day is because I want to take advantage of the uphill thermal, so I'm waiting for the sun to warm the mountain, which she's just starting to do it now so I can sit on her and she should be fine while those

bucks

check out the does in the bedding areas.

It's a place where I would traditionally expect to see a deer early in the morning and late in the afternoon, so I don't worry when those thermals change and drop. I want to take advantage of that moment from mid-morning to noon. movement as they navigate from one bedding area to another, so I usually check the wind with milkweed relatively frequently while I'm on the stand, maybe every hour or so while I'm sitting there checking it and I checked this spot later. of time in the spring while I was exploring and that's how I learned how the thermal pole worked in these different areas and why I don't need to come to this place at first light to be able to do it, but what's important in these types of locations because I still had a descending thermal when I came in, I came in from the bottom and went up the ditch and then went up and across, so I didn't want to go straight.

Did not want to go. from above and just have my thermals sniff out all the deer that are on that side of the hill. I didn't want to do that anymore, so I wanted to wait and sneak to the ditch so I could stay hidden.