High Country Pics

[liontracker]

Working an old track:


Heading In
Up and Over
Death to Dogs
Treacherous Climbing
Double enlarge this and see dogs working
My Cameron's

[Eric Muff]

That is some nasty stuff!
Should be Goat hunting!

[liontracker]

It's a sheep killing Lion.

[B/T]

very neat sequence of pictures.

[twist]

cool pictures what was the out come of the hunt? later Andy

[liontracker]

We didn't catch him. The track was a known 14 days old at this point. It was originally made in a foot of snow and as you can see it was all but melted off. The dogs were picking up scent on the grass and rocks that was left from the snow melt, not even a dimple in the dirt. I was actually hoping to catch him coming back out, so I kept going in every 3-4 days. The day after I took these pics it snowed 3 feet and locked me out for the rest of the season. That's the Continental Divide in the background. Maybe this year...

[R.M.]

Very nice pictures, what time of year was it and how much do they open on a track that old?

[BuckNAze]

Thats awesome! Great pics! And GREAT looking dogs!

[liontracker]

Mid January.
My Camerons.
Every 3-10 seconds. But there are 4 dogs pushing the track.

[Mike Leonard]

Damn , I get the chills just looking at those photos. You guys from the high country are tuff but if it is what you dig I am all for you. LOL!

Myself since I thawed out I sort of like those mellow desert mornings. You know the ones where the quail are calling and the whitewing doves are sounding in the distance? Coyotes are makiing their last chorus of the night and the ring of a jinglebob or the rattle of a bit crickets keeps tune to the hooves of the horses on the trail. Sounds pretty cool don't it? LOL!

Just given you some razzing hell it's all cool when you got a lion track to work!

[sheimer]

Mike, I love the sound of horses moving out in the early mornin' light as much as anyone, but there is nothing the desert can offer that can compare to a long bawl mouth echoing through a mountain canyon!!

Lionhunter, very cool pics.

Scott

[liontracker]

I will probably never get enough of the High Country. The sound of those bawls echoing off the 12,000 foot plus peaks is only amplified by the fact that no one else is up there. There are so many people in the mountains anymore, that winter is the only time I can find true solitude up there. Besides, when the lions finally move out and set up on the low country, it makes for some pretty easy walking for the rest of the season.

[Hi Tech]

LT, them are some awesome pictures! One could only imagin being there!

[Bookem]

nice pics looked like fun

[Brady Davis]

Liontracker, I agree with everyone so far...Those pics are way cool! You make a good point about being in the high country and getting solitude cause nobody is up there. It's freezing ass cold and houndsmen are the only ones crazy enough to be there that time of year! Good stuff there, good times!