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High Country Pics

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:04 pm
by liontracker
Working an old track:


ImageHeading In
ImageUp and Over
ImageDeath to Dogs
ImageTreacherous Climbing
ImageDouble enlarge this and see dogs working
Image My Cameron's

Re: High Country Pics

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:22 pm
by Eric Muff
That is some nasty stuff!
Should be Goat hunting!

Re: High Country Pics

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:38 pm
by liontracker
It's a sheep killing Lion.

Re: High Country Pics

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:53 pm
by B/T
very neat sequence of pictures.

Re: High Country Pics

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:15 pm
by twist
cool pictures what was the out come of the hunt? later Andy

Re: High Country Pics

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:50 pm
by 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 It was originally made in a foot of snow and as you can see it was all but melted off.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...

Re: High Country Pics

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:03 pm
by R.M.
Very nice pictures, what time of year was it and how much do they open on a track that old?

Re: High Country Pics

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:17 pm
by BuckNAze
Thats awesome! Great pics! And GREAT looking dogs! :wink:

Re: High Country Pics

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:52 pm
by liontracker
Mid January.
My Camerons.
Every 3-10 seconds. But there are 4 dogs pushing the track.

Re: High Country Pics

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:45 pm
by 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!

Re: High Country Pics

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:15 pm
by 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

Re: High Country Pics

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:30 pm
by 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.

Re: High Country Pics

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:07 am
by Hi Tech
LT, them are some awesome pictures! One could only imagin being there!

Re: High Country Pics

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:12 am
by Bookem
nice pics looked like fun

Re: High Country Pics

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:51 am
by 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! :lol: Good stuff there, good times!