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Deer Hunt 09
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A "Notta Deer" that I stopped to look at. And a copper vein I found way up near the top of the mtn.
See Scorpion Mountain and Muldoon Creek on Google Earth at: 43° 37.355'N 113° 53.718'W
(this puts you near the top of Scorpion Mountain with Muldoon Creek to the east)
Deer Hunt 09: The Hunt
It was a simple plan. My hunting buddy would come up the mountain from the bottom just as daylight dawned and I, being more ambitious, would already be halfway up the mountain ready to have deer that he scared up running right out in front of me.
Well, simple plans are for simple fools, I guess. In other words, it didn't work. At least not for me it didn't. For my hunting buddy it worked out great. Boom! Two minutes after first light I heard his rifle bellowing down below me. He tagged a nice 3 X 3 buck and had it back down and loaded in his truck within an hour. (Or so he says. I mean, I never saw it, never ate a steak out of it, never saw the rack --- supposedly he gave it away. But, who am I to argue? I know I didn't get one!)
After he shot, I saw a few does come scampering up the hill, but then they turned around and headed right back down. A few minutes later, I heard another rifle boom from down below. As it turned out, a young girl with an either sex tag nailed one of those does that was running around. My hunting buddy assisted her and her father in dragging that deer out as well.
At the time, I was very optimistic. I was up high, deer were moving down below, and I had all day to hike the mountain.
Well, all that stayed true. I stayed up high. The deer stayed down below me. And I never saw another deer all day while I continued to hike the mountain.
Two things doomed me from the beginning. One was crunchy snow. I don't do well in crunchy snow. I'm not the best at walking quietly anyway and with crunchy snow all around making it harder than normal, well, I'm sure the deer heard me from a mile away.
The other thing that doomed me was that I saw some elk. You see, I get real excited over seeing elk. So when a group of cows passed by up above me, I took off trailing them, and I never saw another deer track again until I had climbed all the way up over the mountain and halfway down the other side. The deer, you see, simply weren't up that high and so when I took off trailing elk, which are almost always up high, I killed my chances at finding a buck.
Now, that's not always true on Scorpion Mountain. I have seen bucks up high where I headed off after the elk, but there had been enough snow already that year that the deer were content to stay down out of the worst of it. Elk, well, elk don't care about snow until it's deep enough they have to start swimming to get around in it, it seems. Anything less than belly deep, at least, doesn't seem to affect them.
However, I am proud to say I did learn a lot more about the elk in the area that day and, should I ever get a tag to hunt elk up there again, it will have been very beneficial. But I didn't find any deer.
So, instead of going on about how I didn't see any deer, how about some cool pictures of what I did see? Such as, an elk herd, a boat tree, some awesome views, a stegosaurus back (not really but it's a cool rock), a copper vein, an excellent elk skull, and more. (Actually, there's like one thing more, but you always have to end with "and more", you know?)
Enjoy the photos, with a bit more commentary about the trip.