Got out today for my walk in the woods. Headed to the higher country, head of Piah Creek on the McCall property.
We have an area up there that has been good to us in the past that we call Ambush Saddle. It is a deep saddle on a long ridge that animals usually come through to get down to a water source in the bottom of the draw. It is a still hunt most of the time, sitting and waiting for the animals to come through. It is decent walk back into the old logging unit to get back to the saddle and I was really surprised that it did not look like the 4-wheelers had been back there at all.
The walk along an old log haul road was un-eventful. There seemed to be a good amount of older elk sign in the road way - but I never crossed anything fresh... which I think might have been a first for this walk. It did disappoint me. Also very little deer sign in the road. But I decided to go back in and set up a look-see spot.
The upper shot lane provides a really decent view of the north side of the saddle and it also offers a decent shot. It also gives you a very good view of where the saddle dumps out on the old skid trail. Normally they work their way down the sidehill to the saddle then out across the skid trail - then back in the timber below the road and on down the second shot area where the water is. The range to the bottom is a little deceptive because is really a steep angle when you make the shot.
It was also a un-eventful wait... a couple of Whitetail doe made the trip down and through the saddle, but by the end of light they were the only animals to come down.
So it leaves me with another day to catch them if i can...
Here are some pics... I did not like the way they turned out - they do not seem to show enough detail...
Sharing some N. Idaho Landscape
