Sunday Excursion

 On Sunday, we were up at 4:30 to begin a day of exploration in the Can-Am. We've been wanting to take a route across the mountains that takes us through what is known as The Gap and up to Summit Peak. We loaded up the buggy and hauled 7 miles down the road to our starting point, beginning at 6.

The road is mountainous and rocky 

But gosh we saw some pretty spots                                     

and it took us from 5500' to 1080'.  We could see our property from the top...about 8 miles as the crow flies, but 30 miles by road, averaging about 6 mph. LOL.              

This was my view much of the way. LOL

We saw a nice Elk

A young deer

And I was excited to see my first wild bear. Not a great picture, but I just had my phone camera...they were probably about 300 yds away so it's blurry, but we saw a sow with 3 cubs traveling through the trees and spent some time watching them

We discovered mountain springs...it's always important to know where your nearest water supply is

It's been a good year here and the springs were running

I do wish I had grabbed my camera, but I was mostly scanning the mountains with binoculars and I'm glad I was able to capture a bit of the day with my camera phone. The light was so good up the 7 Cabins road where there are no cabins. Grin.

We found scrumptious wild raspberries

And picked some to snack on

I pinch myself every single day and thank God for placing us back in the mountains

55 miles and 10 1/2 hours later we made it back to the truck. We spent about an hour glassing for game and looking at springs, but the rest of the time we were bouncing up and down the mountain. 

We were worn out by the time we got back home and I was impatiently waiting for the chickens to get their feathered behinds into the coop at 7:30 so that I could go to bed, but it was a really incredible day!