Spring Treasure

[Species8472]

I made it up to the camp today to try and get my side by side up from the river where it has been marooned since Christmas Eve. The best part of the trip however had nothing to do with this. As I pulled into the driveway I noticed a 1/2 ton parked on the side of the road and a couple of kids picking bottles/cans out of the ditch. I pulled up and asked the occupants (mom and dad) if those were their kids. They replied yes. I than said their industrious kids were welcome to come down my drive to the cabin and clean out a years worth of empties. They happily obliged and while the kids (about 8 and 10 yrs old) cleaned up the empties we shot the breeze. I mentioned that it was a hunt camp and that we always had good deer, hare and grouse numbers but that turkey was hit and miss as we are a little far from the nearest farm fields. The father immediately said they lived about 2 miles away and were a mixed beef/crop operation and that they had lots of turkey and that I was more than welcome to hunt there. All for the price of a few empties - can't beat it and I managed to get the SXS.

The winter resting place half way up the big hill:



The crux - steep section at the top that still had 10-12 inches of snow - as the tracks show, I made it. This winter has been crazy mild, some years it is the first week of May before this melts out:



I was also able to find a bolt that was lost in the snow from the spike I killed on Christmas Eve last year:



The elevated blind that got hammered by early season snowsqualls:



Closer look - at least it protected the chair and shooting sticks that are partially holding it up:

 

[LE303]

That's cool .

 

[VanIsleCam]

Good stuff OP!