13 nights camping out

 Since my last post I was busy getting ready to go hunting. It was a bit of work but as usual I was able to prepare and get away. I left right after church and arrived while it was still light and had most of my camp set up in time for bed. Late at night Logan showed up and slept in my tent. The next day we went out and picked up my jeep and at 4:30 in the afternoon we started walking in to a place 7 miles in logan and Barry Heath rode horses and 4 goats carried the majority of the gear. As darkness fell I arrived in camp not long after the others. It was downhill all the way so my knees were a bit tired. We ate and I attempted my first time sleeping in a hammock. The sleeping bag I had was so tight around my shoulders I was unable to zip it up all the way. By putting on both my jackets I was not cold, but due to the unfamiliarity of trying to sleep in a hammock I didn’t sleep once. Next day I discovered that since we were camped in a hole anywhere we went to hunt was climbing. I rested up for the walk out tomorrow. Lest you think it was all bad it was amazing to see the pretty country we traveled through. This night I wiggled into my bag and lay on the bare ground. I slept better I haven’t slept on the bare ground since I was 14. Next day up and after 5 hours of hard hiking we arrived back to the jeep. I thought about kissing it. Grandma came up for her birthday and I had cake with candles and ice cream. I am good. Logan’s family all came so we had a party. Well for the first time I didn’t hear any elk bugle. I was thinking of staying for several more days but after it rained for a couple of days I came home early. I had a nice camping trip not so good hunting my phone storage was full so not many pictures. The deer and elk pictures are in Montana. Blow them up to get better detail.

Good times and Bad winds

 It has been a busy time. On Friday sept. 4 we traveled tp Jordan and Skye’s and when we arrived Makenna made me promise to start my blog again so here goes. On the way there we stopped off at cabelas so I could buy some new boots. While walking around I was surprised to see so many empty shelves no ammunition few guns even the boots were a bit limited. We arrived and thank goodness we got the basement as their ac was out. Sat was Hallie’s baptism it went very well. We had a great lunch and had time to visit and just relax. I walked 6 miles again today. Well sunday and we had a good sacrament meeting and then after a few games time to head home. We had a wonderful time visiting with jordan and family and the Gneitings. The drivve home was good and we had time to unpack and straighten up a bit before John had Drew and Gail bring hm for his first visit. We had a lot of fun with them. John is a real cutie. Before they left the wind started to blow. It broke one of our big pine trees and it fell on my trailer. Limbs were flying over the top of the house as the window was completely from the north. And then it got worse. Down the road it took down power poles and tuey canceled school there is a lot of damage. Logan’s family has no power and so they came over. In the afternoon it stopped blowing so hard and Logan’s family helped,us haul tractr loads of limbs of it was like a tornado had hit. The trailer was damaged but I sort of put it back together ready for o go hunting next week. All the kidds slepy over as they still have no power and school was canceled again.