Latest trip.

I'm getting a nose bleed just thinking about the altitude. I'm assuming it's up high.

Looks like lower Hell's canyon and the Snake river down there!!!! Maybe??? Great pics, thanks for posting. If correct, that is where Washington, Oregon and Idaho converge for those that are wondering.

Bingo.....affirmative on the location. My favorite place.

You can run but you can't hide.

Home sweet home, close to where I have hunted on occasion..Lately out of my lazy nature I have been hunting the Salmon out of Long Tom Lookout..

Sure ain't Texas, that's for sure. This country will determined what kind of horse or mule you've got!

Nobody,
did you see or smell any forest fires?

No fires in that whole area I was aware of, at that time.

Always a "photo crasher", even before 5am!

Beautiful!!
Thank you for sharing with us.
George

Three of us headed to Homestead which is north of Oxbow May 1st for a pack trip back into the wilderness for spring bear. We had set up the temp corral for the night and started packing panniers when the county deputy showed up and told me there had been a fire at my house 4 hours earlier and while no one was hurt, my attached garage and one of my trucks had burned up. Needless to say my mules gave me a funny look the next morning at five when I told them to load back up and we headed back for another 10 hour trip home. The other two guys went on into McGraw Creek and up towards 32 Point but no luck on the bears. Great country but not for the faint of heart. We head back in November for a cow elk hunt.

Norseman,
You oughta take a look at some of that Big Bend Park country in texas south of Marathon and Alpine, and the Sierra Del Carmens just across the river, where I used to hunt bear, Coues and Mule Deer as a kid. Its the same mountains but fewer trees, more cactus and rocks, shale slides and no trails..Great place to test your mule. I still book some hunts over there on a 100,000 acre spread. It's the only place I know where there is a huntable herd of Crooki Mule Deer and the so called Carmen Montain Whitetail Deer.

Do you mean Carmen mountain "Whitetails"? Interesting.

nice pictures the only thing you are missing to make it complete is a couple of mules !!

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Originally posted by Will:
I'm getting a nose bleed just thinking about the altitude. I'm assuming it's up high.

Could say, You're not in Kansas anymore.

Grizz

I find a mule or two every year out in the wilderness. I'd have a heck of a string by now.

Our pack horses on a August trip

And some from last week up elk hunting

nobody2, I would trade a new pack saddle (sawbuck or Decker) for the black mule in the picture if you could get him down here in Texas.

Don

nobody2, I would trade a new pack saddle (sawbuck or Decker) for the black mule in the picture if you could get him down here in Texas.

Turned that mule over to the Forest Service. Let them find the owner.

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And some from last week up elk hunting

Nice pics , Painted. Got elk?

Quite jealous. That's a far cry from the 27 ft above sea level that I ride every day...

I found a horse up in the Uinta Wilderness. I think it had foundered on the all green grass it was eating. It wouldn't move or lead.

I stopped by the Forest Service Office on the way down the mountain and told them about the lost horse and it's location. They had no interest. When I pressed them a little they pulled a report and gave me a number of somebody who had reported a lost horse. No description, Just a name, phone# and lost horse.

They told ME to call him and see if it was his.

That fat mulie in the pics looks like he has a glandular problem... He'd be easier to diagnose next to a pile of mashed potatos!

Norseman,
That's correct 'Carmen Mountain Whitetail" and Crooki Mule Deer..in the Del Carmen Mountains South of the Big Bend National Park in Mexico.

Its about the roughest country I've ever rode in and its where I was raised. I have hunted both here in the Pacific NW where I live now, and down South..The mountains here in the Pacific N.W. are higher and lots of trails as a rule and the footing is mostly good, and its beautiful .. the mountains in far West Texas and Mexico are not quite as high except on the peaks, the terrain is rocky and footing is horrible. Its a hard days ride and only for those who spend most of their life horseback. It is also beautiful, but only to those who are used to it or raised there perhaps..The deer get fat by breaking open rocks and eating the kernals out of them!

Not being argumentive, just passing on good information for those that care to hunt these areas.

Thank you all for this post..I love it. My family started the horse racing here in northern California, Humboldt, in the 1860s...only at the time due to the conditions of the area the horse was required to have Morgan blood.

Now what happened to this buck? It the velvet antlers so thick and his body so fat it makes his head look like it was shrunk. Nice pics I love it..

333 OKH,
you should focus on Trout Creek Mountain tag in Oregon as a out of state resident.
You will see much larger bucks.

about four more weeks and I'll be up there shooting rockchucks.

Rockchucks have been out sunbathing for almost a month now, talk about an early summer.

Great pictures, thanks for sharing.
Be nice to get a written report now n then too though.

George

Nobody2,
Great pictures..I regret that I didn't get into photography early on in my life..best way I know to share old hunts and pack trips..

Too cool. I'm afraid my mule would be too intolerant to say the least.

Thanks for the pic but post some more!

I have ridden all of my life but never in country like that. Sure is pretty.

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Originally posted by nobody2:

WOW! That's your PACK HORSE!

Well a Good Packhorse is "Bulletproof!"
Now you know how they get that way.