WHOOOO! What a DAY!!!! Its 2:33 AM and my buddy (also named travis, as is bowsNhos who is in the same camp with charlie) just got back about 30 minutes ago. I have pictures on my camera, but i'm at school and my STUPID laptop doesn't have a slot for my kind of memory card, and neither does Travis'.... So no pics for tonight guys but I'll tell you one thing, that bull is a STUD!
Charlie even got to video the bull yesterday (thursday) and that was super cool! We got to the trail head around 6:15 this evening, hiked in a ways to where we thought we'd be and met Gerry (travis' father) and he was bringing some water and munchies to the guys but wasn't sure exactly where they were located.... So all three of us headed in their direction and come upon BowsNHos with the head/cape on his back! What a way to get pumped! He was the one elected to carry it because he was the tallest guy in camp and the antlers literally drag the ground while on anybody elses back!!
So me and my buddy take off alone with our packs and head down and meet Charlie who looks like he's about to die just as he's climbing out of the third realm of hell... lol
Sit down, introduce ourselves and he points us in the right direction. At this point we only have about an hour left of light, so we take off down into the abyss...
Found the remaining two meat bags hanging no problem literally 10 FEET away from the creek at the bottom of this drainage! The bull sure had the last laugh on Charlie (and us!). But we were pumped to even be involved and to help out so loaded with 70 lbs of pack and meat and misc stuff we head up the mountain. Made the 1500' elevation gain going straight up in about 35 minutes which we thought was great! Took a 10 minute rest on the top of the ridge, and hiked out the remaining 2 miles in the dark arriving at the truck I think around 9:40 PM....
The bull is a STUD and you cannot fault him on ANYTHING! AWESOME MASS, MAIN BEAMS, FRONTS, THIRDS, FOURTHS, FIFTHS AND SIXES!!! It was truly awesome to help out and me and my buddy were pretty freakin excited about the whole thing!
Good luck to BowsNHos tomorrow! Seemed like there was a "chill" in the air tonight and the rut could really kick in any day now!
For now, I'm super sore, and am going to bed. I've already gotten 10 hours sleep combined for the last two nights and tonight I'm hoping to get 8 or so! Thanks again Charlie for letting us help ya out and no guy deserves it more! Congrats man!
Michael
PS: Sorry for no pics we thought for sure we could get some on here tonight! Will hopefully post tomorrow as I'm going to Wal Mart to try and get them made into a CD!
