I just thought of another one that happened on that same trip. I was waiting in an area on top of a hill that took a good 45 minutes to climb, partially because I was not in the best shape I should be, but was sitting there and heard something moving toward me. I was anticipating an elk to come into the open and listening intently to the sound of sticks breaking and busting as the animal approached on the hillside, then it was getting close so I began to raise my bow and getting ready to drawback when the animal was in the opening, then all at once out jumped a great big black cow, not a cow elk, a beef cow! I have no idea how that cow found his way up that hillside, but it was not the way I climbed up the hill. It was pretty funny though to have a cow pop out of an area that you would never expect to see one.