well, the change in the weather must have turned them on. we were up in the section 3 lake area from wed. til sunday and heard maybe 2-3 bugles- those wimpy, squeaky, testing-out the vocal cords kind. i saw a total of 2 cows up high. my partner ran into a spike, maneuvered for a shot, and got caught by a cow he didn't see. i did have a bear cross a logging road about 15yds in front of me about a 200#er. wed. and thurs. were hot--like close to 80 in the sun, then on fri. and sat. we got about 5" of snow. all in all we didn't see nearly as many animals as last year at the same time. i have some pics of the snow at 6000 ft. but i can't figure out how to post (i'm lame, i know...)

dan, where were you?


willy