A good day in the snow

I took the day off from work this past Thursday and took Bruce back to where I had been finding elk antlers. We got up at 2 am to drive to this area so we would be able to start hiking at sunrise. The snow, however, was a little bit of a surprize.



The first antler, a fresh 6 point


Soon, Bruce spotted his first antler, a fresh 5 point


Bruce hiking.


Another fresh 5 point


Bruce finding the match.


A year old 4 point.


Another year old 4 point


Two fresh antlers, but not a match


A few yards away I spotted this.


A nice fresh 6 point.


Can you find the antler?


A fresh 6 point, however, the fifth point was broken some time ago.


Later on in the day it started to snow pretty good, so we called it a day and ended up with 10 antlers.



On the hike back, we spotted some elk through the fog up on a hill. Here's a few pictures of them. In the binoculars we could see a few of them were bulls and had already had at least 2 feet of antlers growing!