Hunt continued

In this series of pictures you will see our final destination into the forest. Randy calls is a wallo. This is a spot where elk come to wallo...HA. I could see about 5 trails to this wallo and what happens is when a bull is in rut, he will come here and dig his antlers into this mud and fling it around and he'll waller around in the mud too. But the cows come here too. Randy has seen them even eat the mud.... must be tasty. But its not just the elk that come here. Randy has seen other critters and birds come to this spot too. I say Randy because Randy has been here before....when its been active. This time the wallo was very quite. We didn't see any action here this time. Just before we got to this wallo, we did jump a huge bull! We felt like Laurel and Hardy for a moment because Randy wanted his cross bow (which I was carrying) Then he was trying to get it ready and then he needed his arrows and we were trying to be quite too but at the same time trying to find our calls to keep the bull around. Well, that was a joke. By the time Randy had everything in place the bull was long gone! When we were coming out of the forest it got dark half way out. That even amazed me how dark it really is when there are no city lights around. The stars were so close it felt like I could reach out and grab one. It was so dark though that a bear could have been just about an arms length from us and we wouldn't have known it.