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

[J Bryan Kramer]

Heh, reminds me when I lived in Arco. We were visiting a neighbor when the
Sheriff pulls up, the fellow we were visiting had fresh deer and elk skins
tacked to the outside of his cabin and it was months away to hunting season.

The Sheriff walks up, eyes the skins and says, "I hear someone has been
shooting Deer out of season" and claps the hairy eyeball on the miscreant.
"But so long as they are just shooting enough to feed their family, that's
OK." He shakes hands all around, gets in his car and drives off.

BK

On 10/11/07, Tim Fisher <nospam at orerockon.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >At 07:35 PM 10/10/2007, you wrote:
> >
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>
> >>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!
> Email address at http://OreRockOn.com
>
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