Fall is still here.

But winter is fast approaching, Mike and his friend Roger went and retrieved the elk camp that we had set up this past summer. These next words are his I am just immortalizing them for him if that is the right word.
We left Friday morning , and drove into a snow storm, in Wyo. Parked the trailers, at the trailhead. About a foot of snow on the ground. We then preceded to unload the mules and get them packed for the ride in to our elk camp. This is a 10 mile hike or 3 hours on horses and mules.
The trail, nobody had been up the trail since the last storm. WE had to break trail with only a foot of snow this was not hard, but it was snowing and the Wind. You know beautiful WINDY WYOMMING. Thats why Wyo starts with a W and not a Y so that is can rhyme with Wind. This ride took us 5 hours to get in, promised Lora I would call when I got service on my phone, called her on top of the mountain, and boy was it cold, the wind she was a howling, and we still didn’t know if our tent was still going to be there.
Our tent was still there, sure looked different from our summer camp. See pictures.

summer camp, then winter camp.

Tent is leaning quite a bit from the snow, it snowed all night long, but thankfully the wind quit blowing, or we would have had drifts over the tent. I forgot the pancake syrup at home so all we had for breakfast was coffee and bacon, thankfully we were loading up and heading back out. There was another camp of 4 guys up here as well, and they had been up here for a week, but were heading out on saturday as well, they didn’t have any feed for their horses, they had 8 head, we gave them what we had left over from our hay cubes, which was about a bag, not really enough for 8 horses.Breaking camp was a chore of and in itself the tent was frozen could not get it back into the bag. So we folded the tent the best we could and lashed it to the mule, will have to wait for the tent to thaw and dry out before putting away for the year. We had 3 ft of snow to break trail thru. So Roger and I broke trail back to the trailhead,as the other camp their horses hadn’t had any decent feed, for a couple of days.
Thankfully Saturday was a clear day, and very beautiful. We made it to the trailhead and loaded up the mules and went home. My mules got teased a lot because I brought horse blankets for them to stay warm cause I know the wind is terrible up on the mountain and in the horse trailer, but they were warm and cozy. The other animals were just jealous, cause they were freezing. Thats my trip and I am glad that I’m back home.