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Home from the “hunt”

Ok, so I’ll just lay it out there right now.  We didn’t get an elk this year, but it was a blast spending time with the family up there.  Taylor and Tanner loved to play with their cousins and they had Mitchell sleep in the trailer with us.  Something about having a furnace up in the mountains to keep me at a warm 76 degrees all night is makes the hunt even better.

There aren’t to many years that we get skunked on opening weekend, but this was one of those years.  There were 6 spike tags and none of us even got a shot at a spike.  Opening morning Taylor, Tanner and myself saw some awesome bulls.  I thought I had video of them only to find out I’m an idiot and don’t know how to use the camera.  The boys loved seeing the big bulls and Taylor kept asking me “Why don’t you shoot em”  Funny kid I tell ya.  Once I explained that I can only shoot the ones that are spikes he still thought I should shoot the big bulls.  He and Tanner both did an awesome job at hiking around opening morning.  Every time they started talking about being cold we just started hiking again…They learned not to tell me they were cold.

 

It never snowed on us at camp, but up top it was snowing pretty good at times.  The hand warmers on the 4-wheeler really came in handy when we rode from “Camp Fire Hill” back to camp by the lake.  It was snowing and nobody could really see out of their goggles…but at least my hands were warm.

 

Overall it was a great hunt and I can’t wait for the next one with the fam.  I believe we are all heading out west for the deer hunt.  Better fill up the propane tanks!!!