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1,157 AEG |
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| no partners | | There was still a fair amount of water going down the canyon after Saturday's rain, but not enough to keep me from being distracted into some off-trail exploring. Not the best time of year for that with the snakes out and about, but I was ever mindful and didn't see any until I was back on the Dutchman, where one was just off to the side about 2 feet from the trail.
A little further up, I saw the well eaten carcass of a deer at the bottom of a hillside right next to the trail. After climbing the hill and looking around, I found a few more bones and noticed that the whole area is heavily scent marked. This is actually quite close to the trailhead - I'm talking about the hills on the south side of the Dutchman between the high point where you start heading down toward Barkley Basin and probably as far as Coffee Flat (since another deer carcass was spotted along the Dutchman near there earlier in the season). A cat has been seen at the Quarter Circle U Ranch just to the south from as far back as a year ago, so this sounds like established territory and it likes to hang out on the hills above you as you walk down the Dutchman. Just FYI. |
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