It's Coming!

Winter that is. This is the time of year we pick blueberries. We only went once this year and it rained all day. It did stop while we were there. You can't see the mountains for the clouds, but they have snow one them.

Then of course there's leaf clean up. The kids actually like this. I can't help worry about Loxi's hidden Easter eggs. As far as I know, nobody found one.

He is so happy!

Colt has wanted to be a scout for a while. Well, we finally got him in. I came home from work one morning and he was in Chase's room reading his new Boys Life. I asked him why he was in there reading (Chase was asleep) and he said because Chase was a Boy Scout, and that's pretty cool. Chase has a set of very impressionable eye's on him. I hope he remembers that.

Sheep Hunt...again

I managed to get 5 days off and I wanted to try again to get a sheep. I started at the same drainage that I went to in August. Very little sheep. Maybe 15. One of those was a half curl ram.

So I moved to Caribou Trail after one night at Lost Creek. This is a panoramic view of one of the valley's on the other side of the mountain from Caribou trail. You may not be able to see them here, but there's 12 sheep in this one valley, one is a near 3/4 curl ram that would be legal, IF it's a 3/4 curl.

You can see forever.

That's a ewe and 4 lambs 209 yards away. Easy shot. Good eaten'. Jail bait.

No meat on this hunt, but I did find this trophy.

Meg's Bear Mountain hike

Meg's school takes the sixth graders out every year on a hike up bear mountain. We had overcast skies, but it was clear north. You can see Mt. Mckinley pretty well.

Looking down from here, you can see Mirror Lake and her school, Mirror Lake Middle School, on the other side of the Glen Highway.

This is just sweetness. Colt sleeping.

And Justice with a "Two Dog Sleeper Hold".

Sheep hunt

This is where we stashed our extra food and other supplies. We started hiking from the entrance to this valley about 2-3 miles away. We had very little time that was this pretty. Most of our time was rain and clouds on the deck.

One nice thing about the trip was this pair of caribou sheds. Very nice. We found lots of shed, but didn't see a single caribou.

I didn't get completely skunked on the trip. I got this ptarmigan with my trekking pole. That's why the tip is broken on my pole. We cooked it over fire for breakfast the next morning.

This is John's pack. I call it, "The Clampetts Go Sheep Hunting."

And this is the ram we harvested. Very nice specimen.