Well, I haven't been sheep hunting yet. Just before I was to go in to my area on foot, a friend from work was able to get free to take me in with horses but I would have to wait a week cause his kids had 4H stuff going on at the fair. So it was backpack in with 50lbs on my back for 16 miles or wait a week and go in with horses ..... HMMM. I think I'll wait. So we were supposed to go in last Friday. We loaded up the horses and headed for the Crags Friday PM. Stopped in Challis for supper and you could not even see the mountains for the smoke. Called the FS dispatcher and he said the fire on Waterfall had not been moving for the last three days and that the mountain range along Ship Island lake was all rock so we should be safe to go in. As we reached Cobalt about 9:30PM the rain was starting so I was feeling pretty good. The further up the mountain we went the worse it got. The snow was coming down so hard it was difficult to see the road. Nearer the top it was beginning to stick and cover the road. My buddy with the horses said if the snow got deep enough that he couldn't stay on the dirt that he would never get out of that road with 12000lbs of horses and trailer pushing him downhill. Since we did not know what the weather was going to do and the prediction was for more snow all weekend we decided a sheep hunt was not worth somebody's life and turned around a mile and a half from the trail head and went home. Waiting on the weather and may go back up tomorrow if it looks like we'll have a week or so without snow. ,) Tune in next week for the continuing saga.
Mon, 2005-09-12 10:57
Sheep Hunt Delayed - Again!
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