Going camping, be back Monday night!

Sounds like fun!! Enjoy and relax!..karen

have fun!

Wishing you an enchanting encampment. :)

Finally back and exhausted! I'll post some pics tomorrow, I think. lol I have some nice pics of some elk!

welcome back!

Hope you had a great time!!!

Thanks everyone, oh yes, I had a GREAT time, now, here are some pictures I took that I wanted to share.

We stopped in a little town called Stanley Idaho, I snapped some shots of the sawtooth mountains, they are called that because they are so jagged at the top. I also wanted to share a few snaps of the forrest, unfortunately, there had been a forrest fire a couple of years ago in the area we camped, it just goes to show the devastation left behind after a forrest fire occurs, it takes years to rebuild after a forrest fire occurs. Some fires are started due to carelessness of campers, some due to the blazing heat that mother nature provides.

It's was such a beautiful forrest at one time. We were in the area of bear creek, then we rode our four wheelers up to bear creek lookout point.

All the elk we saw came out at sundown to feed and drink, I had to snap the shots quickly. All we saw were the cow elks, the bull elk usually has a harem of 8 - 10 females, he usually sends them out to feed first, then if it's safe he will appear, except this harem's leader didn't appear while we were there.

Here are some shots of sawtooth mountains.

The tree below is an example of what a woodpecker can do when they are hard at work searching for pine beetles to eat!

A pic two - three years after a forrest fire.

A few random shots, the reason you see the mountains in the background which appear gold is because that is another spot in the forrest where a fire ocurred, all that is left is timber.

pretty!!

WOW! Very very nice. Reminds me of Northern Nevada and much of the Sierra Nevada range! Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this. Really hard to get back to the daily grind after communion like this, no?

Thanks for sharing those pics--there were absolutely beautiful. It is amazing the devastation that a fire can leave and the time it takes for nature to bring it back--I don't know if I would have been able to leave there or not! I am going to show hubby the pics of the elk!..karen

The good thing is, it isn't that far away from where I live (about an hour away), so, we will be going back to the wilderness during bow season (end of August). It's so peaceful being close to nature!

wow- that's pretty neat it is so close! I know all about bow season,rifle season,black powder,etc--hubby and brother both avid outdoors men :lol:

Thoses pics. were so pretty. Makes me miss the rockie mountains :cry: But givin time it will be a beautiful place again!! Oh I also know bow season real good lol don't I Bossy :wink: It's comin up here in 1 1/2 months :D Have to take mine in for a check up and tune up.