This entry is for July 8th:
I'm not sure that the intention for today was to track deer, antelope, and elk but that is what we ended up doing.
The day started out innocently enough. Mitch had left early to go creek fishing and was gone when Susie and I got up. We had breakfast and then proceeded to level our RV. Not that it was out of level, but we tried to make it more level... Well, you had to be there...
Once that was done we started to walk up the road. We ran into Mitch walking back down after his fishing trip. We walked and talked with him back to the camp site. He changed clothes and asked if we wanted to take a look around the mountain. We said sure.
He asked who wanted to drive and I volunteered. We drove up a dirt road to about 10,000 to 10,500 feet. (I forgot the GPS, damn) On the way we saw a few deer. We took some pictures and listened to Mitch tell us about the elk hunting he has done here for the last 15 or so years.
I turned the keys over to him and he proceeded to drive us around the complete mountain. We saw numerous deer, a couple of elk, several beavers, chipmunks, prairie dogs and other varmints. We drove over some rough roads and generally had a blast. At one point, we got out of truck and went one way and Mitch circled around to see if we could flush any wildlife out of a particular area. It was really fun to get back in the woods again. It reminded me of backpacking trips with the Boy Scouts and my father.
We came back to the campsite and had lunch and then Susie dropped Mitch off for some more stream fishing. After a couple of hours Susie and I drove to the dam spillway and waiting for Mitch to show up. He had caught another three fish and we drove him back to the campsite.
Mitch changed out of his wet clothes and then we went looking for a mountain lion and some elk that were up on the top of the mountain. We never found the mountain lion but saw some elk. We got back to the campsite after dark.
We again made a campfire and talked to about 11:00 PM. This evening we had clear skies and it got down into the 30s. We went to bed and turned on our furnace for the first time.
Posted by swfields at July 10, 2004 05:09 PM | TrackBack