gremcat
Twelve Pointer
Climbed the falls and hunted the back of a huge tract of GL. Technically Falls are GL. Found some rubs bigger than my leg but only sat an hour. Had to get back down the falls before dark. Learning the lay of the land. After climbing back up 1100' on our side I found a few new runs in a different spot. I had an hour until dark and thought I had him figured out. Sat on a Rhododendron thicket resting under a Fir tree trying to recover from 4 hours of straight vertical in the snow with a 75 lbs. pack. A long way from 3 years ago when I couldn't even walk. I have slipped the last 6 mos. though and paid dearly for not being in shape. Anyway, back to the story. Right at dark just as predicted a deer slipped out of the thicket maybe 10' away from me. It was bald and the buck never showed. Plus, sitting for an hour in a snow bank after that climb was a bad idea. Limped home and right before pavement I saw where he crossed. Maybe 100 yards from where I was sitting. Thankfully, the last sit was only 500 yards to the house or I wouldn't have made it. Saw Bear, a nice 8-10, turkey, a pile of does, snowshoe hare, and even had a flock of some kind of tiny really fat birds hang out in the Fir bow with me. First season not drawing blood but still rewarding.