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LAST EDITED ON Jul-28-06 AT 05:25PM (MST)[p]This is from the NASHC website.
As some of you may have read in my first picture post in this forum I found my first set of moose antlers lying on top of one another. That's a helluva way to start things and I thought it could never be topped. Well, I was wrong.
I am tired of looking in the same area time and time again so the night before I decided to check out a place that looked interesting on the map. It was a cool (~50 degrees), drizzly, and windy day. I started off the day by driving to my new destination at 11000'. The weather wasn't too hot but I decided to check out an area that looked good on the map and to do some fishing as well. I hiked down the 4 wheel drive dirt road to get to the trailhead as I did not want to destroy my wife's camary. After a couple of miles I reached the trailhead and dropped in to the trail. The trail was all downhill which is great for going in but hell for coming out. After another couple of miles I arrived at an ephemeral stream that I walked down until I hit the river. I arrived at the river and realized that this section was a slot canyon and not so conducive to fishing or shed hunting. I decided to try my luck anyways and climbed my way down and started to fish. After a few minutes of not checking any thing I started to climb down from the other bank and slipped and busted my ass. I then made the decision that I wanted to live a little longer and that fishing could wait.
I got out of the slot canyon and continued on my way upstream to where I knew some marsh land was located. I was kind of leary about searching the area as it is still pretty high in elevation (upper 9000') so I didn't know if the moose still hung out in the place during winter. I found the trail again and continued hiking along it to my destination. Along the way I noticed a rub in an opening about 150' away from the trail. I decided to investigate because it never hurts to look.
This is what I saw about 20' from the rub.
Sorry about the crappy image quality but I had to use my cellphone's camera. I was kicking myself for not bringing the digital.
These were a matched set of mid 60's shiras lieing right on top of one another! I damn near crapped my pants when I saw them.
I picked up the antlers and continued on to my destination and saw tons of sign but no more antlers. This area is definitely worth another look-see next year.
The weird thing is, is how often do you find antlers laying on top of one another? And how often do those antlers have their browe tines intertwined? I don't know if they were like that naturally or if someone found them pretty close to one another and decided to put them together. I am inclined to say naturally because the chew marks from the rodents are both on top of both the antlers and I couldn't imagine anyone not wanting to bring them home.
Mind you, this is the second time I have found antlers literally laying on top of one another. I'm thinking I should start buying lottery tickets.
Hopefully I will post pictures tomorrow with me hold them or something of that nature.
As some of you may have read in my first picture post in this forum I found my first set of moose antlers lying on top of one another. That's a helluva way to start things and I thought it could never be topped. Well, I was wrong.
I am tired of looking in the same area time and time again so the night before I decided to check out a place that looked interesting on the map. It was a cool (~50 degrees), drizzly, and windy day. I started off the day by driving to my new destination at 11000'. The weather wasn't too hot but I decided to check out an area that looked good on the map and to do some fishing as well. I hiked down the 4 wheel drive dirt road to get to the trailhead as I did not want to destroy my wife's camary. After a couple of miles I reached the trailhead and dropped in to the trail. The trail was all downhill which is great for going in but hell for coming out. After another couple of miles I arrived at an ephemeral stream that I walked down until I hit the river. I arrived at the river and realized that this section was a slot canyon and not so conducive to fishing or shed hunting. I decided to try my luck anyways and climbed my way down and started to fish. After a few minutes of not checking any thing I started to climb down from the other bank and slipped and busted my ass. I then made the decision that I wanted to live a little longer and that fishing could wait.
I got out of the slot canyon and continued on my way upstream to where I knew some marsh land was located. I was kind of leary about searching the area as it is still pretty high in elevation (upper 9000') so I didn't know if the moose still hung out in the place during winter. I found the trail again and continued hiking along it to my destination. Along the way I noticed a rub in an opening about 150' away from the trail. I decided to investigate because it never hurts to look.
This is what I saw about 20' from the rub.
Sorry about the crappy image quality but I had to use my cellphone's camera. I was kicking myself for not bringing the digital.
These were a matched set of mid 60's shiras lieing right on top of one another! I damn near crapped my pants when I saw them.
I picked up the antlers and continued on to my destination and saw tons of sign but no more antlers. This area is definitely worth another look-see next year.
The weird thing is, is how often do you find antlers laying on top of one another? And how often do those antlers have their browe tines intertwined? I don't know if they were like that naturally or if someone found them pretty close to one another and decided to put them together. I am inclined to say naturally because the chew marks from the rodents are both on top of both the antlers and I couldn't imagine anyone not wanting to bring them home.
Mind you, this is the second time I have found antlers literally laying on top of one another. I'm thinking I should start buying lottery tickets.
Hopefully I will post pictures tomorrow with me hold them or something of that nature.
