Teaching new dogs old tricks

Sorry to hear about your pup.  If you're internet connection allows you to email an image, send to me and I can upload for you.  Good to hear about this snow!

Sorry to hear about the pup, good news is they heal quickly.

Hope you get a slammer!!!

Yeah, the puppy is going to be fine. The vet said she healed well and just needs to build the muscles back so that she doesn't tear up the other knee.

I quit my job a couple days ago. I got a new job 5 minutes later. My old boss couldn't handle the thought of me going skiing. On powder days, when plow guys are busy, he would leave early and make me spend the entire day ( 3am - 3pm ) cleaning up snow at the condos. My co-workers didn't want to help because I was just going to go skiing. Being a plow guy on powder days is a problem anyway. Last year, I decided to quit on April first. I didn't say anything... I just wasn't going to show up. But it didn't snow for the rest of the season. My new boss said that I had to break up with the old boss in a nice way if I was to be hired. My new schedule is 5:30am-9:30am. And I'm going to make the same money.

I took much of the Summer off and built my own house. I couldn't start until the end of July but I just got it dried in.
I did just about everything myself. I rented an excavator, hand mixed the concrete, humped the concrete blocks up the hill and carried every stick in the house. I lost 20 pounds and 4 inches off the waistline. Not that you can tell. But I am in better shape than I have been in decades. In skier terms I lost 2 DIN settings.

Hey Camp, are you still coming out here this season?

Nice work on the house...bet that kept you busy for a while

still planning on first week in March

lolkl wrote

Yeah, the puppy is going to be fine. The vet said she healed well and just needs to build the muscles back so that she doesn't tear up the other knee.

I quit my job a couple days ago. I got a new job 5 minutes later. My old boss couldn't handle the thought of me going skiing. On powder days, when plow guys are busy, he would leave early and make me spend the entire day ( 3am - 3pm ) cleaning up snow at the condos. My co-workers didn't want to help because I was just going to go skiing. Being a plow guy on powder days is a problem anyway. Last year, I decided to quit on April first. I didn't say anything... I just wasn't going to show up. But it didn't snow for the rest of the season. My new boss said that I had to break up with the old boss in a nice way if I was to be hired. My new schedule is 5:30am-9:30am. And I'm going to make the same money.

I took much of the Summer off and built my own house. I couldn't start until the end of July but I just got it dried in.
I did just about everything myself. I rented an excavator, hand mixed the concrete, humped the concrete blocks up the hill and carried every stick in the house. I lost 20 pounds and 4 inches off the waistline. Not that you can tell. But I am in better shape than I have been in decades. In skier terms I lost 2 DIN settings.

Hey Camp, are you still coming out here this season?

^OT Post of the Year.

Dude that's incredible.  I think it's way cool that a guy who moved to powland stays in touch and post life affirming stoke.

Good on the pup too.

Noah John wrote

My Lab, Porter, has a Big Head.  

He turned 9 yesterday.  He's a 9 year-old puppy - and my best friend.

my labs name is Porter as well

We went thru all the 46er names and a cocca lab named after a beer and a mountain seemed a good choice. He is a good dog but a little crazy.  He won't walk up the stairs to my deck because he can see thru them.

I've had Chocolates for years. This is 11+ yr old Schnook. Best frisbee dog I've ever had.

That's one handsome looking fella ya have there Doc

campgottagopee wrote

That's one handsome looking fella ya have there Doc

T-not-WSS!!!  hahahahahaha

ScottyJack wrote

campgottagopee wrote

That's one handsome looking fella ya have there Doc

T-not-WSS!!!  hahahahahaha

Says the self proclaimed "midsized" fella

You been out hunting??? Best time of year is right around the corner for us here in CNY.

Let some birds go in my back yard

was fun for a couple days listening/watching them.....damn coyotes got them the other morning tho...pissed me right off!!

hahahahahahahhahahaha  what did you think was gonna happen!  that is so funny!  good for the coyotes.  A nice tasty half tamed meal on Campers dime!!  hahahahhahahhahahahahhahahaaaa

Was hoping they would make it more than 2 days , and just so you know they didn't cost me a dime. I wasn't even going to "hunt" them, tame birds do nothing for me, but it would've been fun to walk the dogs thru there and watch them work. I actually recorded the coyotes yipping, yelping, snarling while they ate them (with my cell phone)....I must admitt it was a wicked cool sound. The file is too big so I can't post it here or I would.

All that said, it's almost deer season, and I'll blast every one of those fuckers I see

Deer and Elk season starts Saturday. It goes on for 5 weeks.  It doesn't look very good for opening day. Too warm. The elk are timbered up way high in " Young Man's Country." I've been out hiking and scouting but haven't seen a thing. Unless the weather turns really foul the elk will hang out so far from where you could pack one out.
I've been grouse hunting with the labs and got a couple. I'm going hunting with a friend Tuesday at a Pheasant farm. Tame birds for sure, but we are going to show his Lab pup what it's all about. My buddy is a disabled Nam vet who lost all his fingers as well as alot of other damage. He wants to work the dog and let me shoot. I'm good with that.
Pheasant hunting on public land pretty much sucks here. The private landowners know that people will pay for leases if they have birds so the public is shit out of luck. Gone are the days of walking up to someones door and asking for permission. They want about $200 / gun. And the same goes for Elk hunting. If the Elk aren't timbered up high then they are hanging on private property where they seem to know they are safe. They are much smarter than deer and way more elusive.
Many years ago, I was driving around Lewistown, in Central Montana. I saw a ranch with the same last name as mine. I drove in and met the owner. I asked for permission to shoot a white tail. He laughed and said there were hundreds up by the hay bales every night and morning. He was right. He told me that he had 3 1/2 miles of river bottom and the ranch went 2 1/2 miles in either direction! " Just shut the gates." Wow.... jackpot! He treats me like I was really family and now I have a great place to go and get Deer. I'm going to wait for the critters to get into the rut in early November and hope a toad walks in front of me.
Shoot straight!

Nice! Sounds like you have a nice honey hole for deer.

How do they get after those elk this time of year. I'd guess the horse up and camp out up there until they get one??

Yeah, the outfitters have camps set up way into the backcountry. A lot of them are first class operations complete with big canvas tents, woodstoves, chefs and all the creature comforts of home. Their ability to be already out there and have a fast moving horse makes them tough compitition. And in some places ATVs rule the forest. It is awefully tough to find Elk on foot and then shoot it and pack it out. But, WTF else am I going to do? Some seasons ( last year ) I said screw it and didn't bother getting a tag. And then I sulk all season long until skiing starts. Most years I get the tag but end up eating it. I guess that is why you try. If, God forbid, I do find elk, it is an amazing experience.