Long time friend and hunting partner, Cameron Garnick, died early last fall, in hunting camp where we spent many elk hunts with him. Cameron and I hunted together 20 years, on the Yellowstone River, Soda Fork, Dunoir, and other areas. Over those years we spent what amounts to months together in the mountains horseback, climbing ridges at sunrise and struggling down again in the dark. Cameron was often the only witness to some of the most memorable elk I've taken, some of best days of hunting, and many of the most memorable times. He was a true character of the West, and every mountain we topped he stopped to view it like it was his first time. He commonly 'tested fate' in countless situations others would avoid, asking me "Where else would you rather die than here in the mountains." Together we survived countless horse wrecks, accidents, and my first marriage. I will never look at the Wyoming high country without thinking of him and our times together. He died on the first hunt last fall, the one I always went with him on. I should have been there with him. I think he would have liked that.
Lisa Harrington and her husband found this 28 1/2'' mule deer earlier in the bow season and ran onto him again during her moose hunt in the very same spot. A very good mule deer.. congratulations Lisa Harrington!
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Neighbor to us on the mountain, Don Olson, feeding deer in his yard this winter.
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