We started up Bald Mt? Cattle Camp Springs. Seen nothing but deer and grouse. We hit teh deep forest with no sign of any fresh track sence the rain. Crossed many trails and followed several of them with nothing at all but sore feet and lags.
Headed over to Milk Lake one day, see a 5x5 on the hill side near Devils Slide, 4 cows, a spike, and a small raghorn feed down the rock slide to the timber and stay up in the upper areas feeding
Bupmed a cow and calf in the repods with no shot opertunity the same day. Ribka stoped by camp a few times, swaped info, drank some beer, eat some food, and hunted together a few times but had no success.
Ran in to Quackwacker and talked with him for a few a got the skinny on the area, for he was trying to fill a Bull tag. Once we got out of the jeep, there was no one to be found, I was amased that the did not return to the Bald Mt area after the weekend, there was maybe 8 people hunting the area and many were traveling to other areas to hunt.
When we took a walk down Wenas Creek and did not cut one fresh track or trail in over a half mile we decided to move to LN on Wed morning.
Dove to the upper areas Wed after noon and seen nothing promising about the area so never went back. Hike in a little over 2 miles up Fawn Creek to a old clear cut but we were to late, the elk were all ready up and over by the time we got there. While we were resting i was glassing a clear cut across the valley and spotted a small herd of 15 elk in the clear cut. Watched them for a 20 min to see where they were heading, up or down, and i see they were feeding down we headed back to teh truck and headed over there, but we were again to late
. The next morning we headed to teh same claring as the day before and see if teh herd was back and if we could get in to them. When we reached the first landing, i looked up the road seen an elk staning there staring at us. I could not tell if it was cow or a spike with all teh haze and my fat budy steaming up my bino's
after i would wipe them off, as soon as i put them up they would fog up
. I handed them to John and said " you see if you can tell, your not sweating like a pig", but he could not tell either with the haze in the air.
We started our stalk to get closer but it moved on and did not offer a closer distance then 80 yards. The elk walked up the hill and bed down looking at us, laughing, and taunting us, cause she knew we were not going up sfter her cause she was smarter the us
I did hear "squealling bugel" right at sun up in the direction she was at. That was the first time i heard a cow bugel or attempt a bugel
After walking around being wet for 3 days i said f##k it and came home a day early. I was tired of being wet
Left soem stuff out, just to keep it short, and I hope late season is more productive, but now I am looking forward to speed goats in WY
