Elk hunting/backpacking

I spent 2 nights last week elk hunting.  My friend Jason and I backpacked in to get away from all the atv's and road hunters.  We enjoyed 2 beautiful fall days hunting and backpacking.  The good weather however, made for poor hunting. 
I had a great time and got to see some amazing stars at night without any moon.  My tent was at the top of a very steep canyon. 
Hiking around I found a deer skull that a lion had eaten.  I also found several elk skulls that lucky hunters in previous years had harvested. 

Isaac's first hunt

Isaac loves antelope steaks so I told him he needed to go hunting.  He got his hunter's safety 18 months ago.  I have been taking him to the gun range to practice and he drew an antelope tag this year.  He does not like the outdoors, but I promised him we would try one day only.  After missing  3 different antelope he finally connected on a close shot.  He said he actually enjoyed it.  Time will tell if he will try it again. 

August 2014 Uintas

We spent 2 nights in the Uintas with Isaac, Savannah, and Sophia.  Joining us were Dan and his kids Luke and Eliza.  I bought a guide book from Amazon about hiking the Uintas and used this information to find the trailhead, big mistake.  The descriptions told the hiker to follow this river to a tributary and follow that up to the lake.  The lakes were only 2 miles in so I thought bush wacking would be okay.  There was no trail and the forest was thick with many deadfalls.  I scouted ahead at one point and took a nasty fall, see the photo of my leg.  Anyway, after 2 hours of hiking we find a dirt road with a truck on it?!!!  Turns out you can take a four wheel drive road to 1/2 mile from the lake and there were 2 trucks parked there. 
The stupid book!!
The fishing was not very good, but we all had an enjoyable trip and things went well from that point on.  We hiked out on the dirt road which was longer, but easy going.  Once to the main road, I jogged back to my truck. 

 

Wyoming's Green River

Last month I did a fly fishing trip in western Wyoming with my friend Dan.  We camped right next to the river and had a great time floating the river and catching nice fish.  We floated the river trying different sections each day. 
We got to see the town of Big Piney, which Dan was excited about.