Welcome to the J Scott Outdoors Podcast. Today we are going to have a fun episode with my friend

Ryan Carter of D.C. Outfitters, the man with the strong beard game Ryan how you do it I'm doing good how are you Jay I'm doing well you know I missed you up at the

what Western hunting expo but every time I would go by you'd I thought I hid pretty well with the beard. I was trying to go incognito, but it didn't work so well.

Yeah, I didn't know if you were trying out for the duck commander or if you were still with DC outfitters?

I was hoping they make a lot of money but I'm just not getting that phone call.

The phone isn't ringing yet, huh? Not yet.

Fingers across though.

Yeah, good.

Ryan, the last time we had you on the podcast,

we discussed Utah Elk, we've done some strategy stuff we've done

some pre-season before you know before the season strategy stuff you've helped this

kind of with applications and what have you. Today we're going to kind of talk a little bit about everything.

Before we really dive into the state of Utah and Elk and what have you, give the listeners a little bit of an update

on where we sit as far as precipitation, snowfall, and your outlook for the upcoming year compared to years past

where we sit.

Wow, okay. So this year winter has hit us hard. Utah's got a ton of snow statewide. Even in southern Utah, which typically we just kind of skate

by. Southern Utah sitting, last time I saw, I was like at 140% snow pack.

So it's kind of exciting just knowing,

like one, we got that much water coming our way

two that last year was a drought year

so the positive note on the drought year

even though so you know last year we discussed a lot of the age

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