A couple of weeks ago, I went with a few photographers on an outing to Seven Devils Lodge in the Ox Ranch above Hell's Canyon. Our fearless leader was David Cole, a professional photographer based out of downtown Boise. It turned out to be more of just a nice relaxing weekend rather than having many photographic opportunities.
I got there a bit late on Friday and grabbed my gear to run out to meet the rest of the group down the trail looking for critters. Mother Nature wasn't very cooperative in the wildlife department, so the only real critters that night was the numerous cows on the ranch. We did have a full moon on the walk back to the lodge for dinner.
On Saturday, we headed out to a cabin in the middle of nowhere to base ourselves for the day, take pictures and look for critters to shoot (with a camera). Bears are common there and you could see this was in fact true with all the bear scat in the front yard of the cabin by the fruit trees. I mean a LOT of bear scat. We headed on out on a hike and did see a sow with a cub and then another bear, but both were fairly far away. I didn't manage to get a picture, but a couple of other folks did get a good shot in. So Iwill have to settle with some scenery pics.
And then it started to snow.....and snow.....
and snow....
So what better to do than just hang around the fireplace inside where it is nice and warm and just talk about Alaska and cameras and travel until dinner time.
Sunday morning, we did go out in the morning for another critter walk and did see a coyote. I tried to get a few pics of the guy but they did not come out very sharp. Then I took the long drive home. A great time was had by all.
