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This is very cool. I'm sitting here in camp, and I have internet service via a Sprint cellular connection! It is 9:20, we got camp set up around 5:00 and then went for a bit of a look before dark, not much around, though we saw some deer.
As I'm typing this, there is a bull bugling, grunting and carrying on about 200 yards from camp. They may not be that far as I can hear an occasional cow chirp, but the wind is blowing directly from them toward us and it is black dark out, so who knows?
On our way up onto the mountain today, we passed under Monroe Mountain around 3:30, at 3:50 I pulled over while we were on some private ground, shut the truck off and got out my computer. My buddy, Nick, asked me what the heck I was doing. I told him that one of my fantasy football leagues has our live draft at 4:00, and I didn't want to miss it. He thought I was off my freaking rocker! So, while we're sitting there and I'm doing the draft, a bull lights up bugling about 150 yards from the truck, and over the next half hour we saw perhaps 5-6 elk, with the big bull being a 6 pt. but couldn't tell how big since he was walking through the trees while I was drafting my team. I got a heck of a good team, too. Peyton Manning, Brian Westbrook, Ryan Grant, Dallas Clark, Mason Crosby, New England defense, Plaxico Burress, and several other good players who don't come to mind at the moment. It was kinda cool doing the draft and telling the other guys who were online that I was doing it from a 10,000 foot mountain while elk were bugling right outside my pickup. I got some puzzled responses, as you can imagine.
I'm going to try to post updates at least every other day, hopefully more often. It should be fun. While we were in Richfield today, buying some last minute groceries at Wal-Mart, I got in the checkout line, and the guy in front of me looked familiar, so I walked right up to him and asked "Are you Doyle Moss?" It was, never met him before and I have to say that he was very friendly and outgoing. He took time to talk for about five minutes about the hunt and then he and his lovely wife headed out to their pickup. They're camped a couple miles away. For all the bad things some people say about him, I have to say that he was pretty straight up and willing to talk about the hunt, even though he knew I had a tag for the hunt he's guiding on. He made a good first impression on me, I have to give him that.
Well, I have to get to bed now, it's getting late and there is NO OXYGEN up here, so I'm going to turn in. I hope I can fall asleep if this darn bull will quit bugling and grunting. I'll check back tomorrow or Tuesday with an update.
As I'm typing this, there is a bull bugling, grunting and carrying on about 200 yards from camp. They may not be that far as I can hear an occasional cow chirp, but the wind is blowing directly from them toward us and it is black dark out, so who knows?
On our way up onto the mountain today, we passed under Monroe Mountain around 3:30, at 3:50 I pulled over while we were on some private ground, shut the truck off and got out my computer. My buddy, Nick, asked me what the heck I was doing. I told him that one of my fantasy football leagues has our live draft at 4:00, and I didn't want to miss it. He thought I was off my freaking rocker! So, while we're sitting there and I'm doing the draft, a bull lights up bugling about 150 yards from the truck, and over the next half hour we saw perhaps 5-6 elk, with the big bull being a 6 pt. but couldn't tell how big since he was walking through the trees while I was drafting my team. I got a heck of a good team, too. Peyton Manning, Brian Westbrook, Ryan Grant, Dallas Clark, Mason Crosby, New England defense, Plaxico Burress, and several other good players who don't come to mind at the moment. It was kinda cool doing the draft and telling the other guys who were online that I was doing it from a 10,000 foot mountain while elk were bugling right outside my pickup. I got some puzzled responses, as you can imagine.
I'm going to try to post updates at least every other day, hopefully more often. It should be fun. While we were in Richfield today, buying some last minute groceries at Wal-Mart, I got in the checkout line, and the guy in front of me looked familiar, so I walked right up to him and asked "Are you Doyle Moss?" It was, never met him before and I have to say that he was very friendly and outgoing. He took time to talk for about five minutes about the hunt and then he and his lovely wife headed out to their pickup. They're camped a couple miles away. For all the bad things some people say about him, I have to say that he was pretty straight up and willing to talk about the hunt, even though he knew I had a tag for the hunt he's guiding on. He made a good first impression on me, I have to give him that.
Well, I have to get to bed now, it's getting late and there is NO OXYGEN up here, so I'm going to turn in. I hope I can fall asleep if this darn bull will quit bugling and grunting. I'll check back tomorrow or Tuesday with an update.