Snowy Hike

We took our annual fall hike Sunday in some very unexpected ground cover...SNOW. While we occasionally have some snow in October we usually don't have 4 to 6". And it was the first time in over 25 years we had snow to hike through. Most of the top of the mountain had 8 to 10" of snow but it began to melt pretty quickly once the sun came up. Of course that also caused the snow hanging on the trees to fall on us during most of the trip.

The crew wondering what the hell are we doing out here.

The sun just coming up in the east. 

Looking out to the west across the valley. I was a little

disappointed in how hazy it was. 

U.S. survey marker on top of Grubbs Knob.

Log Walkers

The bears seemed to enjoy walking the log at the mountain pond set last week. First a cub tried out it's tight rope walking skills and then two bigger bears decided it would be fun the walk the log. Please excuse the slight blur on the pics. Another bear just had to stick it's muddy nose on the camera lens before these pics were taken.

Ten Pointer

This set of pics really got my blood pumping. I'd heard rumors that there was a big ten pointer in the neighborhood but this is the first good visual that I got of him. I think I may have seen him last month at day break with a group of does on the power line. I was riding the four-wheeler going to check the cameras when I saw a real white antlered buck. He was too far off to get a good look but I'm pretty sure it was this buck or better yet another similar to this one. The cameras switched to infrared in the last couple I got of him. Got some other good sets last week that I'll post up later this week.

Look At Me

I had to laugh when I saw this series. If I didn't know better I'd swear the squirrel knew it was getting it's picture taken.