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Thursday, October 1, 2015

Dad's Elk!!!

Well here it is! Dad's elk!

In our camp of 15 hunters we only got 2 elk but Dad was fortunate enough to harvest one of them! It was a nice medium sized cow elk and although it wasn't a bull it was a welcomed result after a solid week of hunting! Dad made a good shot from 30 yards away and the elk was only on its feet for a few seconds! Unfortunately in the bustle of getting such a huge animal out of the woods and onto the meat pole we didn't get any pictures of Dad posing with the elk but Mom did manage to take a few pictures of the process of skinning and quartering it.

There it is! Not a pretty picture but it shows it how it was :)

Starting the skinning in the truck!

And up onto the meat pole! Definitely a group effort!

Skinning

And there it was! It was really pretty awesome to actually get one of these elusive animals! The following Monday we butchered up our animals and Dad's elk gave over 180 pounds of lean meat!

Elk Camp II

We found some more wifi so hopefully we can upload the majority of our elk camp pictures!

Ultimate frisbee in the meadow

Behind camp

Rachelle and cousins Julie and Summer

Thank the Lord the fire ban was lifted and we enjoyed a blazing fire every night!

First elk in camp! :) another hunter from camp got this very nice cow elk and most of the camp got to help him bring it in!

Aubrie playing a card game with Sandra and Jean

Tara's birthday party

Campfire/Kitchen area with everyone waiting for the hunters to return

Supper by lantern and firelight :)

The moon was incredibly bright!

Just some fabulous scenery

Got to end the week with a great view of the lunar eclipse! This picture doesn't really do it justice of course but it was pretty neat to say the least.

So that was about the extent of our time at elk camp. We came back Saturday night and attended church with Leland's and Wayne's on Sunday. We were then invited over to Jean and Jim's for another night before butchering up the two elk and deer.

We will make another post all about Dad's elk!

Elk Camp Pictures

Well we have hit the road again after 13 wonderful days in the beautiful state of Oregon. Our time there was definitely the highlight of our trip and it was really sad to leave.

We arrived late on the 16th (Wednesday night) at Mom's aunt and uncle's place just outside of John Day Oregon. We stayed there at Jim and Jean's house until Friday afternoon, at which time we drove the 45 minutes out to the main attraction, elk camp! During our stay at Jim and Jean's we were invited in for several very yummy meals that were greatly appreciated!

After arriving at elk camp and setting up camp the hunters hit the woods in search of the very elusive elk. Unfortunately we don't have many pictures of the hunters decked out in their hunting attire as they were not seen much in camp during daylight hours. But hopefully some of these pictures will give you an idea of what camp life was like.

Annie and Haven riding horse

Autumn and Aubrie loved getting rides on Juliana's horse.

Micah with some chipmunks that he shot. He kept busy hunting and cleaning squirrels.

Jump rope!

Aubrie and the twins Nathan and Stephan

The campfire and some of the hunters taking a afternoon break.

Havey being goofy with her baby

Currently we are at an rv park in southern Utah and the wifi connection is extremely slow so it looks like this is all the pictures we will be able to upload at this time. We DO however have quite a lot more that we will upload later.

For those of you that really wanted to know and didn't hear already, Dad was successful in getting a nice cow elk! So we are coming home with a lot of meat! :) Pictures to follow!

We are seeing some crazy awesome places!

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Elk camp update

Well our one main goal for the trip is over! We arrived at elk camp last friday and packed up last night (Saturday).

As soon as we get time and wifi we will be sure to post all about it but i thought i would just let you all know what has been happening.😊