To start off my March Break, I decided to go riding with one of my riding instructors. (My best friend Sierra came along!) It was a lot of fun, although the horses were extra hairy, because they are shedding! What I thought was going to be a short ride turned out to last a little over two hours. It was such a beautiful day though! I was only wearing my sweater and jeans. (I haven't been able to do that for a long time!) What I love about the area I live in is that it doesn't take long to be totally submerged in nature! As we got deeper and deeper into the woods, it almost seemed wrong to make a noise. We were far enough back, that we discovered evidence of a wolf pack. Wolves are pretty scarce nowadays, so this was a pretty exciting discovery!
On Sunday, I felt it was warm enough to start running again. I got on my running gear, got my dog, and off we went. It felt so good to run again! I decided to go somewhere I'd never run to before. It was a little dirt road hardly anyone lived down, so we went up it and explored. While we took a walking stretch, we came across this deer eating in a field. It didn't seem to notice us, so the dog and I stood there and watched it for awhile.
When I got home, my little sister was complaining that my brother took the kids phone to his friends place, so I offered to go bike and get it! It was a pretty long bike ride to his friend's ranch, but it was enjoyable, and I came across even more deer!
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| I love biking down this hill, but I hate biking up it! |
On Monday I went to Sierra's
(I really don't enjoy living in town, so whenever I can get away I do!)
Sierra lives kind of everywhere, but at the moment she is staying with her dad in a town that is practically a ghost town. Not to far off is the bush though. When I got there, she told me she had seen a wolf take down a deer not too far from the house when she had been riding. We decided we should go take a look at it, and savage what we could. (hide, any good meat, bones,etc) When we got there however, we were met with a big surprise! The wolf had dragged his kill all the way down to the river bellow, and floated it down to another location where it couldn't be tracked by other meat eaters.
(I am amazed at how intelligent these creatures are!)
Anyhow, we didn't bother tracking it further down the river, because the river and snow around it is rather dangerous with the melt off. We trugged home like defeated hunters, but it had been an enjoyable adventure!
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| Where the deer was taken down |
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| The trail the wolf left by dragging the deer |
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| The river where the trail ended |
Plus I got free scraps for the dog and a steak for me!
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| Sierra's Donkey! |
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| Her pony Joe |
Also I got the wildlife internship! I am so excited!!!!
