I sneaked around a bit then got up on the ridgetop.

The ridgetop is more old growth, a place Paul and my son-in-law Wesley call "the Cathedral" It is a kind of hangout for elk and deer .. Wesley got caught in an elk stampede there one year.

Attachment 114576 Attachment 114577

There was beaucoup hoarfrost - it was a glittering world

Attachment 114578

Well that day wore on. I heard a gunshot but it wasn't Paul. On the way out we saw where two elk had bedded down on a sunny spot in the middle of the trail we walked in on. Loafing there while we knocked ourselves out looking for them.