by Roberta Kellis | Oct 18, 2015 | Uncategorized |
It’s the weekend! Elk are tucked away as far as we know, so we came back to camp to eat lunch and do some chores before the rain starts. Wood is chopped, solar panel charging our equipment, ropes and tarp hung over the meat pole, new latrine dug, showers felt...
by Roberta Kellis | Oct 18, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Day 6: Here is a beautiful snow lake that is just a mud hole now. We glass it (with binoculars) every time we drive by looking to see if a herd has been through it or not. Last time I saw fresh sign moving through it was Monday. Holy cow!! One elk crossed back over in...
by Roberta Kellis | Oct 17, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Day 5: As soon as the sun comes up, we’re going to go check out the tracks I cut yesterday. We need to determine if the elk went up or down, and then decide what we want to do from there. Somebody was target practicing last night just below our camp. Which means...
by Roberta Kellis | Oct 16, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Yay! Gary’s here. First hike should be a doozy. At least now we have two rigs. We can park one down below and drive up to the very top to cover more ground that way. We split up to make one big huge circle of the area. Gary went downhill; I’m going to...
by Roberta Kellis | Oct 15, 2015 | Uncategorized |
It’s a virtual heat wave this morning at 41-degrees upon sunup for my elk hunt. Worst walk ever. About a mile hike straight up a red cinder road. You talk about noisy!! I feel like I’m being sent into enemy territory for this elk hunt. A group of hunters...
