SEPTEMBER 27
My buddy (we'll call him Tranquilizer...) Arrived at 1pm last Saturday
We quickly went over our gear. Then we bailed. Like I said earlier, this is Tranquilizer's first hunting expedition but not his first time in the mountains. So I took him to a river that is our western boundary. We took a look at some mud flats to see if there were any fresh bear tracks. There wasn't. So we headed back east a little ways to my spot I check out for goats. We pull in and get our binos out to scan the ridge top.
Tranquilizer asked "so how do you spot goats?".
They way I've learned to do it is to, look where I think they should be then somewhere completely different. But Tranquilizer hasn't really done any reading about goat behavior and habitat that I know of. But sure enough right away he spotted goats. Right on! Hopefully it's a sign of things to come.
We spotted 3 goats and then took off to where we were going to park and hike in. By this time it was 3ish. My though was it was only an hour to a waterfall, then it's probably only another hour/hour and half up to where I wanted to camp.
So off we go.
Tranquilizer liked the tree to my right in the picture
Then I kind of fell in love with it as well
