The Elk Hunt Week

Pretty much the last two weeks were spent up at the cabin for the elk hunt

We left Friday the 5th

Kennedy and I had a few things we had to do to get ready before we could leave

Some of it was shopping

Which included getting her Halloween costume

She wanted to be Spider Girl

I let her wear it around the house 

It was too rough and she crashed for a while

Chris, Todd, Hunter, Kennedy and I all went to the cabin Friday night

The hunt opened Saturday morning

Between us all had 3 spike tags and one cow tag

Todd filled his cow tag opening morning

It was SO cold to start with but warmed up finally 

We did a little cruising around looking for elk

We were on their private property so Kennedy rode up front with Grandpa for a while

She thought that was the coolest thing 

There was lots of hanging out by the campfire

Makin smores

Todd and Hunter left Sunday afternoon

We came down to hang the elk in the cooler and head back up

Monday morning Chris's friends from work were up in that area too and had a few cow tags

We brought them over to where we were hunting and they ended up filling two of their cow tags

Kennedy and I were off in one spot while Jason, Mike and Dillon were brushing an area

Jasons wife Tammy was across the hill from us watching another spot

The guys were brushing the trees down hill towards us girls so anything that they spooked should run down to us

Kennedy was sitting by me on a log and I turned around and she had found a piece of wood and was playing the violin

She is too much sometimes!

We didnt see ANY spikes

Saw a lot of bucks.. including the two on the left who were headbutting and playing

A TON of doe and fawns

Most doe had twins with them

A lot of bull moose

Ton of grouse

Antelope

A few nice bulls

But no spikes

Chris, Kennedy and her puppy Chocolate took a nap

We came home Wednesday to shower up and I had a softball game that night

We were eating dinner at 5:45 when my dad called

He said oh hey we are having a safety fair and cutting up cars, I bet Kenned would love it! You guys should come down.. it goes from 5-7.. so we hurried and headed to Ogden

Dad waited for Kennedy and cut up a car just so her and Kinlie could watch

They thought it was pretty cool

(He's the one in the white helmet)

and there was all kinds of other neat kids safety fair stuff

We headed from there over to our final fall softball game for a team I was playing on sponsored by BRB

Early that next morning we got started cutting up the three elk

Dad and Dane each got a nice bull opening morning out in Snowville

Elysha brought donuts

We turned on movies for the kids inside Liz's house before they all had to go to school and spent all day cutting and wrapping!

As soon as we were done we showered and headed back to camp

As usual Kennedy cant stay awake on the wheeler

One day we took a long adventure and ended up in Randolph

We saw some neat country and cool logging areas

I wore my furry hat.. it may be ugly but let me tell you it was SO WARM in the cold wind

They were doing a lot of burns in the area during the hunt which sucked

Mill hollow, they burned all of Elk Valley

It really messed up the elks normal habits and filled the air with so much smoke

It made my allergies twice as bad

But it did make some cool looking mornings

We would sit and watch the fire and smoke over the ridge when we were at camp

We could see the lights of the trucks and watched the helicopters drop in water

Kennedy had been making an elk call noise with her mouth

It was so funny

She started doing it over and over and over outside 

She ended up calling in a bull moose!!

Seriously!!

She was SO excited about that

You can see her on the wheeler calling and the moose in the treeline

Friday the weather was kind of sucky and we spent some time just hanging out at camp

Kennedy curled up in the recliner and was watching movies

I tried to wear the lucky elk hat for luck but it didnt work

We took a drive over to Elk Valley to see what they had burned

Saw a nice bull but no spikes

We came home empty handed so far

However we hadnt heard of ANYONE getting or seeing ANY spikes at all in the area we were hunting.. so that made us feel a little better! 

We still have a few more days until it closes but its back to the real world and work for us

We will be able to get in an evening hunt or two so cross your fingers we will get at least one!