[Rockhounds] giant garnets exposed: a field trip gone awry

[Tim Fisher]

If you don't see a moose in north Idaho in the woods you are not 
looking in the right places. I saw moose almost every single trip, 
and got chased by more than one angry cow with a calf nearby! There 
was a resident bull in the Elk City sewage pond for many years, I 
talked to someone who lives there this summer who said that an out of 
state hunter (figgers lol) shot him (legally) a few years ago. He was 
practically the town pet. As a poor starving grad student our family 
regularly received illegally harvested moose meat (and elk, but we 
turned down the bear and cougar!) from the state. I bet they don't do 
that anymore because of "public health concerns", but it sure was 
great to have something other than burger and my yearly deer back then :)

At 10:56 AM 10/11/2007, you wrote:
>OT comment:  Moose?  Pretty unusual in Idaho!  I used to have a doe 
>steal laundry off the clothesline, and cow elk come up to accept 
>carrots and sugar cubes, while the bulls stood in the distance and 
>barked---in Avery, Idaho as a kid.  But no moose!
>
>Aloha, Bill
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>At 07:35 PM 10/10/2007, you wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
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>>
>>Well I definitely made the last up-country field trip of the 
>>season. This is one of the legendary massive garnets from Moses 
>>Butte, St. Joe Forest, Idaho.  The trip involved a bumpy ride on a 
>>narrow unmaintained road up to 6000 ft. in fog and clouds, above 
>>the snow line, whereupon we almost went off the side of the road 
>>and had a close call with a running moose.

Tim Fisher
Ore-ROCK-On!
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