Tomorrow, Friday, at 0400, we'll head to the field and see what we can find. It's exciting but I always wonder if I am prepared for any contingencies.
Last year on our Timpa-Nebo ( both summits, one day) hike, an old injury came back to my left knee just before crossing the scree field on the way up Timp (2nd peak.) I didn't mind it a lot at first, I was tired and zoning out, all my attention focused on getting out on the front and up to the shed. But on the way down the jarring became absurd. Fortunately I had packed a lot of Motrin and Tylenol. In the Army if we were sick or tired or achy, we got "Ranger Candy", big orange 800mg Motrin tabs. So I went back to my training and started popping pills.
Lucky for me, the tag team of bloody mindedness and the miserly refusal to pay $15k to get MedEvac-ed off the hill worked, but I still wonder if a neoprene brace wouldn't have been worth its weight in gold or Motrin.
Kenny has been seeing the same herd in the area he has hunted the last few years. The herd has been growing in size and strength, and hopefully a big bull will be tagging along.
I better get to bed, we'll see what this weekend holds.
And thanks Scott for the link, and if it's any consolation, most tame bucks know they have it good and stay put. He'll probably be hit by a car long before he gives up the sweet honey hole of your neighborhood.
5 comments:
I love that first pic! Good luck!
Great photos!
D.
I also loved the photos of you and was going to say that even before I saw the other comments.
Your already headed up a second time and I haven't seen you to talk to you about the first. I hope things are going well.
Man, if you aren't prepared for any contingency, the rest of us are totally screwed. I think my fantasizing for a helicopter may have been too overwhelming in a situation like that.
I've wished for one in lesser distress, you know.
I have a gimpy knee sometimes...it is so frustrating. Thank goodness for motrin.
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