leanin' H
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We made our yearly trip to Southeastern Utah last weekend to look for turkeys. This year it was my Dad's turn to draw the tag. The winter has been unbelieveable in that country. Monticello, Utah gets 55 inches of snow on a normal year. this year to date they are at 139 and change! :shock: Made for an interesting trip. Here are the kids in front of the snow covered Abajo or Blue Mountains.
A bull session about where to look for turkeys. The low country had melted off nicely.
We roughed it in a motel this year. Kids could watch cartoons in camo! You'll see why tent camping wouldnt of been much fun in a minute.
Littlest H likes hunting turkeys!
Up this road about 10 miles is really good turkey hunting. Except this year!
My bunch posing on a glacier. :wink:
Dad is 6'4". The snow really stacked up. Must be the missing snow some of ya'll have been looking for.
The hunter, the guides and the decoy.
We looked til our eyes hurt.
But the veiw made it all worth it! If ya'll get the chance to visit Utah, DO IT! We have lots of National Parks like Zions and Arches. Plus our regular plain old mountains are easy on the senses!
Indian ruins are everywhere. These cliff dwellings just amaze me!
A Room with a view!
This country has many old homesteads like this one. They still run lots of cattle down there too. Plus a lot of dry farming. I could live down that-a-way pretty easily.
Montana isnt the only place with Big Sky! :wink:
In our travels we found this set of corrals with rock walls on three sides. Ought'a turn most cows but I've known a few who might need another course or six of rock. I've known a few that would need enough more rocks to start a nice gravel pit! :wink:
I guess you build with what is handy right?
We even journeyed way out west on Elk Mountain but the turkey's were still in hibernation. Looking back to the east at the Blue's.
We'd head up a promising road and get stopped by snow. Still was a bunch of fun though.
Can you see the Horse Head on the mountain The Indians knew about it as did the early settlers. It's a neat landmark in these parts.
A zoomed in shot.
We made a trip to Dove Creek Colorado to pick up some beans. Look up Adobe Milling Company and Anasazi beans on the internet and order some. You'll love them! They are really creamy and have way less gas than regular pinto beans. They found them in indian ruins years and years ago. So they tried planting some. Cool eh? Plus they have some neat mounts in their store. This buck is 30 wide with cool extra inlines.
A 368 Pope & Young Bull taken by a bowhunter.
Another buck with extras.
Kind of a neat way to make a pedestal mount using shed elk horns.
They say it aint over til the fat lady sings! Well here's the Fat Lady rock and she must'a been singing. The turkeys won but we had a great vacation.
One more shot of the country we got to see. Hope ya enjoyed tagging along with us in our travels.
A bull session about where to look for turkeys. The low country had melted off nicely.
We roughed it in a motel this year. Kids could watch cartoons in camo! You'll see why tent camping wouldnt of been much fun in a minute.
Littlest H likes hunting turkeys!
Up this road about 10 miles is really good turkey hunting. Except this year!
My bunch posing on a glacier. :wink:
Dad is 6'4". The snow really stacked up. Must be the missing snow some of ya'll have been looking for.
The hunter, the guides and the decoy.
We looked til our eyes hurt.
But the veiw made it all worth it! If ya'll get the chance to visit Utah, DO IT! We have lots of National Parks like Zions and Arches. Plus our regular plain old mountains are easy on the senses!
Indian ruins are everywhere. These cliff dwellings just amaze me!
A Room with a view!
This country has many old homesteads like this one. They still run lots of cattle down there too. Plus a lot of dry farming. I could live down that-a-way pretty easily.
Montana isnt the only place with Big Sky! :wink:
In our travels we found this set of corrals with rock walls on three sides. Ought'a turn most cows but I've known a few who might need another course or six of rock. I've known a few that would need enough more rocks to start a nice gravel pit! :wink:
I guess you build with what is handy right?
We even journeyed way out west on Elk Mountain but the turkey's were still in hibernation. Looking back to the east at the Blue's.
We'd head up a promising road and get stopped by snow. Still was a bunch of fun though.
Can you see the Horse Head on the mountain The Indians knew about it as did the early settlers. It's a neat landmark in these parts.
A zoomed in shot.
We made a trip to Dove Creek Colorado to pick up some beans. Look up Adobe Milling Company and Anasazi beans on the internet and order some. You'll love them! They are really creamy and have way less gas than regular pinto beans. They found them in indian ruins years and years ago. So they tried planting some. Cool eh? Plus they have some neat mounts in their store. This buck is 30 wide with cool extra inlines.
A 368 Pope & Young Bull taken by a bowhunter.
Another buck with extras.
Kind of a neat way to make a pedestal mount using shed elk horns.
They say it aint over til the fat lady sings! Well here's the Fat Lady rock and she must'a been singing. The turkeys won but we had a great vacation.
One more shot of the country we got to see. Hope ya enjoyed tagging along with us in our travels.
I'd be willing to bet that you and your brothers didn't back talk to your Dad when you were kids?! :lol: :lol: :wink: 
