Stories from the Mountains – Day 3

After another great night of sleep under the stars, morning came too soon.  Waking up as light slowly broke over the mountain, I pulled on my boots and headed to the truck.  I made the short drive up the mountain and took off down the logging road again.  This time I made sure to take my time and look over every spot.  All I was seeing was squirrels.  It was a beautiful morning on top of the mountain anyways.  Coming back down the mountain, I once again encountered the turkeys.  They must be hating me by this point.  They have been chased down the road by the Trailblazer for three straight days.  I get back to camp to find Casey awake.  We mix together what is left in the cooler, put cheese over it and call it breakfast.  It actually tasted good, but then again, we are camping.  This meal isn’t going into the rotation of a normal kitchen.  We sneak back down the creek and attempt to stir up the fish again.  Once again they are immune to our passes.  We move down the creek a little further but find no new fish.  We decide to take a little time and practice with the bows before we head home.  We take an empty gallon water jug and fill it with water from the creek and place it at 30 yards.  Two shots later we each have a hole in the jug.  We shoot for about half an hour emptying the water through the abundance of holes that we have put through it.  We decide it is probably time to return to the real world.  We begin to break down camp.  Casey is beginning to show some experience and camp comes down in a hurry.  The trucks load up quickly and organized.  We take few minutes to enjoy the beauty of the mountains while finishing off the final Pepsi for me and Coke for Casey that we had in our cooler.  This was our que.  Time to go home.  We took our time driving out of the mountains to avoid disaster on the one lane gravel road.  We hit the main road and part ways.  It was definitely a windows down music up kind of day, but without the same enthusiasm that I had entered the mountains with three days earlier.  I arrived at the house and unloaded the truck and put the seats back up.  It is almost time for my first child to enter the world so I got the car seat ready to put in the truck.  Don’t worry though…the tree stand and the bow are still in the back of the truck just in case…