A-con
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Today was opening day for local deer hunters in central Calif.
I headed up the hill to try and get away from the hordes. They issue 9,000 tags in my local unite (that’s right, nine thousand) it’s like a war zone.
A few months back, I hiked and fished a creek on the edge of some rugged back country, and while up the creek, I saw some interesting back country, that would be difficult to hike in to. The area up to the right in this photo
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That was my goal for the morning, to try and get back in there, hoping to get away from the crowds.
Before dawn, I parked the truck and started hiking by moonlight up the creek canyon. A half mile up I crossed the creek and went straight up a steep granite face.
Once on top, I looked back and took this.
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Once on top, I found what I was hoping for, a quite, mostly old growth forest.
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Easy walking and no sign of any human . Not a boot track or piece of litter anywhere, just animal tracks. Deer tracks, bear tracks, coyote and lion tracks. Lots of lion tracks. I only saw one small buck, but got to spend the whole morning enjoying the peace and quite.
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About noon I came out under some power lines that I knew would leed me back to the road where my truck was parked.
I headed up the hill to try and get away from the hordes. They issue 9,000 tags in my local unite (that’s right, nine thousand) it’s like a war zone.
A few months back, I hiked and fished a creek on the edge of some rugged back country, and while up the creek, I saw some interesting back country, that would be difficult to hike in to. The area up to the right in this photo
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That was my goal for the morning, to try and get back in there, hoping to get away from the crowds.
Before dawn, I parked the truck and started hiking by moonlight up the creek canyon. A half mile up I crossed the creek and went straight up a steep granite face.
Once on top, I looked back and took this.
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Once on top, I found what I was hoping for, a quite, mostly old growth forest.
*
Easy walking and no sign of any human . Not a boot track or piece of litter anywhere, just animal tracks. Deer tracks, bear tracks, coyote and lion tracks. Lots of lion tracks. I only saw one small buck, but got to spend the whole morning enjoying the peace and quite.
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About noon I came out under some power lines that I knew would leed me back to the road where my truck was parked.
