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It's amazing how nice it is not knowing what day it is. To be free of civilization, traffic, cell phones, morons...it's absolutely soul cleansing. Waking up at 9,320ft every morning is something everyone needs to escape to for a week at least once in their life.
Lately I've been working my butt off. The best part about it is that my work does not include a commute, emails, phone calls, meetings, coworkers around you that make you pull your hair out...or turn it grey. Instead I'm getting to do work that makes me feel like a man, not a pawn to "The Man." I typically wake up and gather horses/mules, bring them food, brush them, throw a saddle over a few then head into the cook house for a nice warm breakfast. The rest of my day consist of packing mules, scouting, chopping wood, cleaning up around camp, washing my hands a dozen times a day, and anything Larry tells me to do. Yesterday I drove down to Eagle and picked up a few hunters at the airport, a nice break from camp life, but a trip to town is never wasted. I had to take our garbage trailer to the dump first, pick up groceries, stop at the bank, auto parts store...etc.
Today, which is somewhere between Thursday and Sunday (actually I know it's Friday but that's just because my computer told me so when I logged on) we had 6 hunters going out to drop camps, but those were three duos, which meant packing seperately for each one after the other for the first 5hrs of the day. We also had 3 guided hunters come into camp which is great news for me...I should be heading out to guide soon! I believe we have another two guided hunters coming in later today that are going to be taking video of their entire experience to be published on a hunting DVD. How cool is that! I may be lucky enough to head out with them and be "Bob, the guide" one day (unfortunately not the lead guide, but still great none-the-less).
Dream job? Almost. Take away my battered hands that I can't seem to keep clean or moist, and my new tentmate that snores, and the lack of laundry facility, and I can assure you this beats my previous jobs hands down. The money, nice house, fancy car, motorcycles..blah blah blah. What's life if you never live to experience what God put on this earth for us to enjoy? If you have never spend time out west in the mountains, I suggest you do so ASAP so you can hopefully understand my feelings.

I've been posting pictures on my smugmug site. The gallery is not "featured" on the first page so it's easy to find.

Well, a crew just pulled in with 3 horses and 4 mules that need attention. Gotta run!