Early Elk Hunt 08

Well Dad, Shay and I went out Hunting (well we called it that, it was more of a hiking and seeing how the tent goes up) trip. It was fun, wish we would've gotten up there earlier, so that we could've set it up in the daylight. Dad should've burned the stove before we got up there that way all the paint fumes wouldn't have taken 2 hours to burn off while we waited outside in the rain and cold, but it was ok, it was worth it. The tent was awesome, it kept us warm and dry, the stove got super hot and was nice to cook chili and hot cocoa on, not at the same time.

The tent is huge by the way, we were able to put in two bunkbeds in there and had room for more.

Well we didn't see anything at all, besides two bald eagles and four deer, oh and some squirrels. However, we will be going back up around Thanksgiving when the snow comes and pushes the elk down off Mt. Adams.

Since we didn't see anything, so I turned to taking pictures of the area without the snow around. Here are some of those pictures, I'll put some of the pictures from the hunt in November up after we go, hopefully it'll show some elk this time.

Shay decided to reserve our spot for November, he does realize a few feet of snow will be there, but hopefully we'll find it when we clean off the snow for the tent.