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Author Topic: Snowshoed Sunday looking for a new Elk area  (Read 346 times)

Offline Butts2

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Snowshoed Sunday looking for a new Elk area
« on: November 23, 2008, 09:08:00 PM »


Started out this morning 24 F. You can see the road upper left
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Re: Snowshoed Sunday looking for a new Elk area
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2008, 09:09:00 PM »
Man I miss Colorado!
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Re: Snowshoed Sunday looking for a new Elk area
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2008, 09:09:00 PM »


Pay dirt or pay water in the forest about .8 miles. First pic was my son and my dog
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Re: Snowshoed Sunday looking for a new Elk area
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2008, 09:11:00 PM »


Looking back over some of the terrain. We started at 9,400'
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Re: Snowshoed Sunday looking for a new Elk area
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2008, 09:12:00 PM »


Not sure if you can see but the far back top right side is "kinda" awesome.
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Re: Snowshoed Sunday looking for a new Elk area
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2008, 09:13:00 PM »


Sometimes the dark timber gets dark in the middle of the day
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Re: Snowshoed Sunday looking for a new Elk area
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2008, 09:15:00 PM »


Portions got pretty steep, as we climbed. Is there any other direction in western Colorado?
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Re: Snowshoed Sunday looking for a new Elk area
« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2008, 09:18:00 PM »

Climbed to 10,747'. Wanted to go about 0.5 more miles maybe next weekend. Told my son to start a little fire. (Why?) Usually we pack Granola bars and thats it
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Re: Snowshoed Sunday looking for a new Elk area
« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2008, 09:19:00 PM »

I had saved one pack of Whitetail sausage to skewer over the fire. Yahoo
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Re: Snowshoed Sunday looking for a new Elk area
« Reply #9 on: November 23, 2008, 09:21:00 PM »


On our way out. We live way in the back of the photo. 42 miles one way from the house
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Re: Snowshoed Sunday looking for a new Elk area
« Reply #10 on: November 23, 2008, 09:24:00 PM »
That photo where I said it was dark timber was at 10,000' they were standing on a pond. Yahoo
 
Don't you love these fences. We were in about 10" of snow most of the time.
Thats it! Maybe more during the next weeekend. Happy Thanksgiving Gang!!
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Re: Snowshoed Sunday looking for a new Elk area
« Reply #11 on: November 23, 2008, 09:38:00 PM »
Cool pics. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Snowshoed Sunday looking for a new Elk area
« Reply #12 on: November 24, 2008, 07:41:00 AM »
Did you see any rabbit sign up there?
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