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Today was a bust. So tired..... Plan was to go out again tomorrow, but my legs are done for a day or two. Gonna split wood tomorrow. Will hit a different area on Monday.

Side note, on my hike out I found the remains of the deer I shot 6 days ago. Picked clean, it was pretty impressive to be honest. I think it would be interesting to put a trail cam near "the scene of the crime" someday.

Pack rode well all day, was nice to have the rifle on my back but easy to get to while I was hiking up and then when hiking out. That thing gets heavy!

Very cool, thanks for finding that!

When I take an animal, I always thank it for feeding me and my family and for teaching me something I didn't yet know. I also say to the animal that I will see them next time. By that I mean that I think about the circle and that this animal is now back in the hopper... it will feed not only myself, but that it will feed many others in the place where it lived and died. Maybe that food becomes a new tree, maybe it will be the fuel that a bear needs to get to IT'S next hunting grounds, maybe a little bit of that critter will be in the rain that falls.......

So going back to the site where I quartered her (something I have never done before) was an incredible and powerful experience for me. Within 6 days she was bones and shredded fur. There was very little of what I left, in a very short amount of time. What I pictured in my mind was very close to those pics.