Well, I finally got to take Chase out ptarmigan hunting. And he did quite well. He shot three times and got three birds. The first two were on the ground, the last was on the wing about 30-40 yards away. It was a pretty good shot. So this is his first ptarmigan, and his first Alaskan game. If you click on the picture, it will enlarge and you can see Mt McKinley behind his left ear.
Here's all three of them.
While we were out we saw a parade of moose. Eight to be exact! Eight! First we saw one moose walk out of the valley, then another and they just kept coming. The last three were bulls. You can see the bulls in the left of the screen. The first one is huge! Points sticking up every where. It was one of the coolest things any of us have ever seen.
Early in our hike, we found this ice structure. There's a well that runs year round, even in the winter. You can see it's clear on the left and some how was broken and jumps across the space into another tunnel of ice. That's Chase in the background.
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