T's 1st hunting trip of the season

Last Wednesday Fred and I went up to Refrigerator Canyon to begin our journey to the hunting spot.

The weather was a little chilly that first morning but ended up being a nice day for a hike and horseback ride.

Hiking up to our first look out Wednesday evening.

Hiking to our other spot on Thursday morning. 

It was very cold and windy. Luckily, my guide suggested we bring a sleeping bag to keep warm. While he scouted for elk I took several naps in the warmth of the sleeping bag 😊

Here I am putting Parker in the corral for the night. 

My hunting guide

Friday morning we were all ready to go out - had our packs and guns on - then it started to rain. It rained most of the morning and some of the afternoon. We decided to head out around 1:00pm when it stopped raining. It was very cold and windy. Not an elk to be seen. So we headed back to camp around 5:30pm. Decided to have a fire to get warmed up. 

We had decided to leave Saturday but before heading out, we did ride the horses up to our look out point - after it had stopped raining again. Still no elk but it turned out to be a beautiful day. 

 

We didn't get an elk this trip but we did have a nice time together in the wilderness and enjoying God's beautiful creations.

To be continued...…

Getting ready for our hunting trip

Today Fred took the two horses up to our hunting spot to get our camp set up and ready for me (us) to use in a couple of weeks. At the beginning of the trail are a couple of rocky areas so he asked me to help him take the horses past them. I hiked with him a little farther up the trail then left them to go on their merry way. It was another 7 miles for Fred and the horses. He rode Friendly and let Parker up the trail. When we go I will ride Parker. Fred took his bow since it is still bow season "just in case".

 

Some fall pics

Elk Wallow

I only archery hunted once down at the Emily C cabin near Basin. A friend of mine and I stayed there one night last weekend. We had a good time and saw some elk but didn't get any.

 I had placed a camera on a elk wallow back in August and picked it up as we were leaving last Sunday. I won't get back down there to hunt this year. When I got home, I saw that there were some good videos recorded by the camera:

https://vimeo.com/292569068

https://vimeo.com/292569647

https://vimeo.com/292569688

https://vimeo.com/292569719

I also had a picture of this guy. Glad he didn't steal the camera. A nice bull showed up later the same day.

Rifle season opens Oct. 20 and Terry and I have a hunt planned for that week. We will be taking the horses in to the area close to home.