It has been four years since I started writing my blog.  I have posted 83 stories, had 112 countries and over 2200 cities check out the site so I think it has been a success.  This is my last scheduled story.  I will continue to write stories on my up coming hunts and a few in between but not on any set time frame.  Hope you all have enjoyed my stories enough that you have shared them with some of your family and friends.  Have a wonderful 2020 enjoying the great outdoors.  Good hunting!!

Weather is one of the major factors for a successful hunt.  Even more so on planned short hunts or hunts with specific dates that can’t be changed.  Short seasons with bad weather can blow the entire season and there’s nothing you can do.  In fact, this past sheep season I wanted to celebrate my 75th birthday in sheep country but because it had rained hard every day in the area that I planned to hunt the week before opening day, I started thinking it was a no go.  It was also supposed to rain some during the first week of our hunt dates.  There were reported mudslides in the area and all the creeks were swollen.  We chose not to attempt accessing the area.  A friend who had hunted the area for the previous five years tried going in that area but got stuck in the first mudslide about 100 yards up the trail and there was no way to proceed with the creek out of its bank.  They cancelled their hunt.  Our decision not to go was apparently a wise one.