We had a little overnight getaway! Chad's desert bighorn sheep hunt is still going (until November actually) and Jenny and Cody offered to take the boys overnight so that I could go with for a couple of days. It was hard for me to leave those little stinkers but they had so much fun at Aunt Jenny's and we had so much fun playing down south! We left early afternoon on Friday. We parked the trucks and loaded up the side by sides with all of our gear and drove ten miles in to where we would camp. The guys (Chad, my dad, and Chris) hurried and put up our tent and we unloaded everything that we didn't need for the hunt, and then we headed on out to look for some sheep! The scenery was amazing and pictures DO NOT do it justice! I'm so glad I got to go and experience it. We saw a few sheep that night. Chad even took a shot at one that he happened to walk upon. He was walking along a ledge and just stopped to look over and a giant sheep was lying on the cliff ledge 135 feet below him. He backed up, dropped his gear, loaded the gun and went for it. He missed but enjoyed the fun that it was. Looking back now we're all glad that he didn't get it because it would have been near impossible to get the sheep out of that deep canyon. We stayed out until dark and then headed back to camp. We cooked up some hamburgers and brats for dinner which totally hit the spot. Then we all sat around the lantern and talked. It was cold and we didn't have a fire so the heat from the lantern had to do. We killed two scorpions and a black widow near our tent! I thought it would be a long miserable night (cold and poisonous critters!) but we all actually slept really well, other than the hard ground we had to sleep on.
We woke up early Saturday morning and met up with Corey and KaBree. We got to watch the sun rise as we headed back out to hunt. The San Rafael is insanely huge and full of huge, deep canyons. We would be driving along on flat desert ground and then bam, it would open up into thousand foot drops into these huge canyons. I took so many pictures and video but it all is nothing compared to experiencing it yourself! We hiked and drove and hiked some more. Chad got a shot at a ram that was on the run but he missed. Those things are too fast! We eventually made our way back to Chimney Canyon and went on a little hike there too. It was getting dark and we lucked out and saw four rams walking along the steep hillside across the canyon from us. The shot would have been perfect but once again, impossible to get to the sheep if we got him. It was neat to watch them work their way along the hillside. Heck, it was neat just to see them period! All of the others I had seen had only been a blur up until this point. Once the sheep rounded the hillside and were out of site we spent a little longer hiking and glassing for more before heading back to our rides going back to camp. We hurried and took the tent down and loaded up and headed back to the trucks to go home. We made a quick stop in Salina for dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant and then we headed home. We figure that in the two days we were down there we saw nearly thirteen sheep! That to me is pretty impressive considering the amount of land we covered and seen. It was so much fun and I'm glad I got to go!
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