Holy Shit, no its not a god post.

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Its a holy shit post! as in holy shit I almost pissed myself, that was too close to me the sneaky bastard!I spent my weekend hiking, camping and fishing. at one point I was sitting on the river side tying up a new bit of line after losing my shit to a snag. I nevre heard a thing, I finished and turned around to find a big ass fucking animal a very short distance away. I took one pic, the noise of my camera pissed off another animal that I had not been able to see. She came out of the willows nad brush and dropped her ears, snorted at me and spent too much time watching me.I only got one pic, but its a pretty damned impressive pic. The big animal pic ! while making me want to shit myself when she suddenly appeared and started taking an interest in us, it was still an ultra fucking cool experience. I was within 10 to 15 feet when that pic was taken and she was about 5 feet behing him, and another 10 feet or so further out.No zoom on that pic, just a lift and shoot moment and I didnt stick around after her warnings to take any more pics.I did think that more than a few people here would enjoy seeing it, and being jealous of my wilderness experience for the last weekend.The pic was taken on the river, the water is just a few feet out of the frame, to the left.I was standing behind a pine tree when I shot the pic and I didnt feel it was enough protection to shoot anymore with one already pissed off and watching me. also found severa; bear tracks in the mud on the main trail just a few hundred yards off of where this pic was taken.The Moon was nearly red when I first saw it, and by the time I got the camera out alot of it had disapeared as it rose higher. Alot of big fires in the area. The smoke makes a red moon and fucking gorgeous sun sets. the nights at over 9000 feet above sea level are fucking cold (37 degrees F on my thermoter before I went to bed that night) and 40 miles back in away from any city lights you can see a million fucking stars. I almost wonder if hes bored, he doesnt look too excited to have just caught this Cutthroat Trout. He was however much happier Throwing Rocks in a roadside lake the night before.The moon and the rock throwing pic were taken with in 1/2 mile of each other @ Lost Creek lake in the high uintas, the first pic was taken about 40 miles from lost lake, and about 2 miles worth of walking u a river in Christmas meadows on the Still Water river thats fed by the lakes I love to back back into all several miles above where I ran into him and the bitch that doesnt like camera noises.If anyone has the chance, I highly reccomend packing in there.Its in the north east corner of utah, right along hte wyoming border.pick up your fucking trash, Im tired of bring out other peoples god damned garbage every time I go into the woods.Do you have any idea how shitty it is to have a moment ruined because with in inches of a big bear track in teh mud thers a fucking snickers candy bar wrapper?Anyone else have any photos of get aways? reccomendations for adventures?big fuckign animals?

BC!

That picture of your boy throwing the rock is a great picture. Are you gonna frame it?It reminds me of an 8 year old boy I spent a lot of time with when I worked for Seven Counties.Looks like a great adventure. I'm jealous.

Nice pics, yeah, I AM jealous... I want to go camping now... But then I would miss rodeo (and fair!) season, which is really something to stick around for, especially here.

Nice Pics!, Im going camping like in 2 weeks in an island

Haha, nice pictures! Fucking hell, the closest thing to camping that I've ever done is camping out at music festivals, and it really is not the same thing!

Moose...practically blind. If you stay still, they think you're part of a tree or something...and leave you alone. A moose and her calf came upon me when I was about 6, shovelling snow in the driveway (lived in Alaska at the time). I didn't move a muscle and they just went on by...maybe 15 feet away. But yeah, those suckers are the size of a large horse, and a lot more dangerous...if you move.

What the fuck is BC?- Before Christ- British Columbia- Brilliant Catch- Barely Competent- Big CockWhat?

Big Cock seems fitting...

I find it to be a more prolific obsession.

Apparently Bob's latent beguilement with homo-erotic imagery is just emerging and will no doubt cause a great deal of consternation and denial on his part.

No it won't!

I'm glad to hear it, it's always good to embrace penile infatuations.At least, that's what I've always told 'em but very few listen unfortunately.

I've actually had a penile fascination today... my own, of course.

I take it your kid takes after his mother. This is a good thing.

1. I love BC, I packed through the lower end of it one year for a few weeks.2. Hes not mine by blood, just by emotion and care, so of course he takes after his mother, hes smarter and prettier than me.3. Scotty (?) I think it was scotty thta said ormaybe damien? Id have to scroll back and look to be sure but you know who you are) He is 4, fucking 4 not 8. hes just huge. Hes 45 1/2 inches tall and just a few ounces off of 60 lbs.He wears a size 7 clothes, and they are getting tight, a size 13 shoe.

It was me...sort of.I wasn't assuming he was 8. I was just saying the picture reminded me of an 8 year old boy I spent time with. More the context and expression than anything else.

I knew it was one of ya! people always assume hes 7 or 8 when they see him the first time. I automatically assumed based on past reactions to him that you assumed the same thing.whats that shit about assume making an ass....I think that applies here.Night Shift with the fonze and micheal keaton was a great show.

Of course I'm jealous. The biggest animals I have seen this summer are black tail deer. Stupid hoofed rodents! (Yummy, but annoying). The pigs are awfully allusive, last year we had a bunch, and a HUGE boar tearing up the lower field. Nice sow kill but not the giant boar. Lots of sign and not a glimpse of a single animal.

Fishings been fun, on Whiskeytown lake, but nothing that big, bout a dozen legal rainbows 2 weeks ago. Ask me next time I decide to clean that many fish...just ask me what the hell I am thinkin! Only cause I can clean a trout of any size in 30 seconds or less...I GET ELECTED...pfft!

As for the friggin trash! Ya, pick up your shit! I always end up hauling out more than I brought in cause some lazy bastard can't pack out their own garbage...GRRRRR!

Just shooting moose with a camera eh? Loads of fun. These are hanging around too. This one was at the mine in Elko where my Dad works...but I won't get to go there till Labor Day...I haven't seen one at my place, they just keep stealing my cats, (I think we lost 5 so far) and the prints in the dust are pretty neat!

Iv seen alot of sign near my home of cats and very little evidence of them where I love to pack and fish.I rarely worrie about them, IV had 2 close encounters with cats, once on a deer hunt, once while exploring a ghost town and it was in a tree about 6 feet off the ground growling at my kids that were a few feet away. No idea it was there till it started makign noise and the kids were at that time about 5 and 3. Iv had them track me and found thier tracks in mine when I cut back to my back trail while trying to push deer out of pines. bastards leave ahead of ya, but if you cut back about every 50 yards go straight down hill and then back 100 and then back to your trail you can often catch deer circliing behind you, thats when I found teh cat tracks, 5more times of cutting back over a mile and finding its tracks in my foot prints each time led to a hasty retreat to the car. I was jsut scouting deer and out of season for another month, I only had a small pistol at the time I carried for snakes. My buddy that was with me told me hes more scared of moose than bear, myself Id prefer to fight a moose.I saw several big mule deer, one just outside of 30" wide and in velvet, really box looking antlers, maybe 34 high and nice eye guards, a small drop horn on one side maybe 3 inches long. He did not want to stick around for me to get the camera out.Haul yuor ass to utah pepsi, Ill take you into cat territory, Iv cut more tracks and sign of cat in spring canyon out in skull valley than anywhere else. its 11 miles form teh car to tthe top and thers some wild horses that roam skull valley. Iv rarely been into spring canyon with out seeing atleast a few of the horse.. several packs of them over about 60 miles of mountains but always soemup at the spring about 500 feet below the summit in the quaken aspen. Strawberry resivoir often has rainbows over 6 lbs. tiger muskies are in pineview jsut above ogden, there was w oman there a few weeks ago that landed one fo them that was just over 5 feet long.Utah is full of great fishing and great mountains. highline trail starts about 2 miles from where I took teh pic of that moose and runs over 50 miles and down brown duck pass into moon lake by dinasaur national park. Iv done that trail in 4 days, up for a walk?