LAST EDITED ON Sep-17-06 AT 08:01PM (MST)[p]Prism, Great idea for a highjack...
This is how it Really went, beside the factual cold and weather which you talked about.
Scout a few weeks in advance and find some good quality deer. Head back the day before the hunt, ride the horses in for 2 hours only to find 4wheelers with Utah tags on them parked in the saddle. Then make camp and leave to glass only to find a Utahn's tent set up in the exact set of jack-pines which a nice 180 typical and his buddies were bedding in just 1 week prior. Then glass a large meadow only to see 3 more 4 wheelers 2 miles off the approved trail (findout later they are Utahns also). Then opening day sun comes up and there are 14 guys within 400 yards of us. Then we ride 3 miles the opposite direction to look into another canyon, only to have another Utahn side hill his 4 wheeler over to and past us. We shoot one good 4 point and come home, thinking that the time would have been better spent watching Burly Bucks.......
Wait that happened in 2002.... what was I thinking....
By the way, I am also from Utah.