Depends...the best woods carry revolver I own is an S&W .44 Special Mountain Gun, which of course S&W never actually made...the gun's a custom from Hamilton Bowen, who built it out of a .357 L-Frame 686, a .357 Mountain Gun skinny barrel rebored to .44 Special, a 696 5-shot .44 Special cylinder and a handful of other parts.
You can do almost as well as a .44 Magnum Mountain Gun if you can find one. It's lighter than the Ruger 4-inch .44 Magnum, but the advantage of the Ruger is that it's a tank. If you want to shoot dinosaur thumper .44 Magnum loads, take the Ruger. If you're going to shoot mostly Specials, take the Smith.
Recently, my Sweetie co-opted the Bowen gun, and I've been carrying a 3-inch 629 .44 Magnum overhauled by Jim Stroh at Alpha Precision in a Simply Rugged Sourdough Pancake holster. I load the gun with a cylinder-full of Corbon .44 Special DPX, backed with a speedloader of Buffalo Bore 255-grain Keith load thumpers in case I run into a velociraptor...not real pleasant to shoot, but hey...I think I'm going to get the 3-inch Magnaported, too...
If you're a single action fan, get a Ruger 50th Anniversary .44 Magnum Blackhawk and have Hamilton lop the six-inch barrel down to 4 5/8-inches.
In truth, if I'm hiking and traveling light, I'll go with my Charter Bulldog .44 Special that Magnaport redid for me or a box-stock ancient S&W 296 titanium .44 Special.
Michael B