WEEK THREE!

Friday:
Leaddog shows up solo once again to sit in the rubbed and scraped area at Billy’s Watch. Nothing seems to be refreshed, some new attempts at scrapes or feeding is seen. After a few hours the weather demons begins their attempts to demoralize the solo hunter. Wind and drizzle makes conditions a bit miserable to sit longer so a still hunt back is in order.

Side note – on the ingress Leaddog picks up transmissions from intruders….it seems (to them) they’ve found Utopia! After determining their basic location based on their back and forth chatter it’s apparent they’re only a few hundred yards or closer at one point, with verification of exact position at one point! The chatter is as follows:
Them:
“This is a really cool spot! This flat is nice! I see some buck shit, a plug of it, I see you. I smell an animal here….Come over here and we’ll have lunch”

Leaddog to himself, but refraining to say over the radio to them:
You smell an animal, and you see your friend? He probably farted…
Buck shit? Take a bite of it, if it tastes like cock it’s a buck, you’ll know!

Leaddog takes position on a log to figure out whats going on…then performs some psyops…Getting on the radio to absolutely no one….since not one of the gang is present:
“Polecat there’s a big bear heading to you”
“Is Lindy on watch yet?”
“Everyone set?”

Them:
“Look at the area by the swale, it’s all beaten down”

Leaddog to himself (They hit Bernie’s Mystery Trail, good luck!)

Them:
“I’m going to look for a place to cross”
“I found a “wire”…it looks like it’s there to help cross the creek on the rocks”
“It looks very military like….”
Leaddog to himself (They found Bernie’s Mystery Cable, or whats left of it)…..(military like??!!)
Leaddog to Them:
“WE PUT THAT CABLE THERE”!
At that very moment, Polecat apparently arrives at camp and of course gets on the radio asking the usual “are there any dildos out there?” After some chatter it was conveyed to Polecat the situation, and it looks as if the intruders got the message and left the area, no sign of them crossing the creek was seen. Good! Now don’t come back!

Back to the hunt…
Slowly making his way back to camp, a short side trip just above Cable Three resulted in a brand new rub, just in sight of the cable! Something IS indeed here! YAY!

Saturday:
The crew decides to push from Billy’s Watch UP to Camp Valley….all two watchers are in place, and three drivers starts their routes. Leaddog is directed to hit the School Bus(SB) watch, Toucher in between and Polecat heading to Old Forge to begin. The SB is on all GPS’rs, so it should be easy? Right? Nope…..apparently each driver has his own unique waypoint listed as SB, which are nowhere near each other! Toucher crosses Polecat, Polecat crosses Toucher, and Leaddog has no clue what the other two are doing! Finally all finds Camp Valley and the two Steve’s on watch, slightly chilled to perfection. A run once again to the barren wastelands of Piney Knob is done, with the usual results.

Sunday:
The Bunny Hill is hit again, and much sign is seen! Beds by Robba, rubs and scrapes by both Toucher and Leaddog. The drive starts towards The Notch, and Robba kicks out two does which runs towards The Notch, hopefully to Steven! Upon arrival of the drivers at the Notch, (IS THIS THE NOTCH?…..) they seem to have vanished. Part two is now in order, with the Polecat on watch down below by the Hobbit Hut area. Leaddog and Toucher up top now finds scrapes that weren’t there last week, with running tracks heading towards Polecat. We have something moving, and it’s leaping 30′ at a jump! Down the mountain the two pushes the mule, which of course circumvented the waiting Polecat on watch. This may have been what we’re looking for!

Next week is the Alaskan Adventure Week, which apparently no one wants to venture. Leaddog may go solo, as there’s not two feet of snow prohibiting him from leaving the camp, like last year! Somebody’s got to do it……

Now for some photos…..