The things we do for fun eh?
Yep.
You brought back memories of the worst drag I was ever part of. We put on a drive alongside Tionesta lake. My buddy shot a big bodied 6 point on the steepest part of the drive. It wound up falling, sliding, stumbling all the way down the hill into the lake. It was floating about 15 feet from shore when we finally strung a rope and halfass rapelled down the side of that rockwall. The water there is 40 feet deep 10 feet from shore so wading out was out of the question. We got a long limb and persuaded it to shore. Had to suspend it from the rope to gut it eventually got it up over with the rope tied off above, two guys with the deer shoving it 2 feet or so every heave and two guys taking up the rope so we could then haul ourselves up 2 more feet before repeating. Took over 4 hours to get that deer up over the hill and the better part of two cases of barley and hops liniment to relieve all the bruises and sore muscles.