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Got out in the field to our "Area X" today with Magniaesir, to a recently built new logging road; it's been topped with gravel, but the shoulders are still soft and damp. All that showed were a couple of deer tracks; actually the valley seems to have very little game sign in it right now. During the 5 hours or so in there, we only saw 2 chipmunks, a few robins, and heard a single grouse drumming. On Friday, I got out for the afternoon with Thomas Steenburg in the Polaris ATV on the East side of Harrison Lake, where we saw some very recent, and large, bear scat, and heard multiple grouse everywhere we stopped, but the old deactivated road we were running was mostly very hard packed, and tracks were hard to see. The view from the top end of that trail was spectacular, with half of the 40 mile long lake and Echo Island below us, and snowcapped Mt. Breckenridge towering in the distance. So no prize either day, but a couple of great days in the woods with good guys to file in the mental memory bank, so I'm happy Some shots from today:

I posted a few details about my experiences way back when and then learned not to post them anymore -- although I am on a bit of an upswing again. And the experiences I have out in the woods are pretty much like yours. I'm just not afraid of drawing the obvious conclusions from those experiences, especially when those same conclusions have been reached so many times before by sooooo many other people. I think your plan is great, to find a place to camp and take it from there. But it might be good to be prepared for hits and misses, even there. These guys do things on their own schedule, not ours. I went on a week-long camping trip in an area where I had already had lots of interactions with the locals, and it felt like a bust. It wasn't, actually -- some really cool things happened -- but they weren't on the level I was expecting, so I kind of downplayed them in my mind until much later, when I finally smartened up. One thing I, like many others, have been trying to learn from all this is to appreciate every little thing, because you never know when (or if!) that little (or big!) thing will ever happen again.

well, we at least we know how to get a one armed squatch out of a tree now...... wave at him seriously though, i'll guess escaped exotic pet , chimp orang, etc......but would love to be wrong about that.

I hope he has it well hidden. It would be a shame if those men in black SUVs came & took it.