Pictures of the Wyoming Hunt
First posted November 11,
2004 Last updated November 11, 2004
A storm is brewing over camp. The cook tent is in the center, Bill's tent
is behind Bill's Bronco on the right, Paul's tent is behind the red rental
vehicle on the left. The blue jug on the right is our water stand. The fire
pit is directly on the other side of the cook tent.
This is a panoramic view of our camp. Scrolling from left to the right,
you see my car, the cook tent, then further to the right you see Paul's tent
and the First Butte (of Five Buttes), then Bill's tent, then there is a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong
view of the sage, first looking North, then.........................................................West,
then .....................................South, and then back to my vehicle,
now showing the water stand and the cook tent.
As you can see, there is a sparsity of trees, to be sure. At the top of First
Butte, you can see some trees of a type I could not identify. It is amazing,
but we saw deer all over the sage surrounding camp.
The campfire was a hole in the ground (dirt is saved just to the left of the
fire, to replace later). The chairs
made life a lot more comfortable, and the antlers on the chair helped to improve
the scenery. To the left
of the antlers you can see, behind the table, the stack of sagebrush for firewood.
It made an amazingly good
fire, for brush.
Here is an end view of the fire pit. We would cook over the far end and use the close end for heat. Later, after cooking (if done), we would remove the grate. |
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This is a view of camp from the north, beyond the campfire and looking back
towards
the cooktent and the road. Waterfall Gulch is about 2 miles beyond the cook
tent,
the county road is off to the right, Paul's tent out of view to the right,
Bill's to left.
Looking across the campfire towards Bill's tent. Bird Gulch is a few miles
beyond Bill's tent.
The clouds were always changing, and would give us great color towards the
end of the day.
It could be raining in one area a few miles away but dry where we were.
Bill working on his antlers, scoring them.
More storm clouds at dusk