You know how those hunters from Kansas and some of that cold wide open country that's

in that transition zone between the Midwest and the true West those guys sometimes hunt from a mobile heated box blind made by Ford or

Chevy or Dodge. Well, I'm not in one of those great states. I'm in my home state of Idaho.

Up in the central part in big mountain country, hunting elk, late season elk.

And currently I'm sitting here recording on my Zoom portable podcasting device in my heated,

mobile box blind.

However, that's just kind of a fun way to look at this ability to get really warm after a very cold morning.

Slept on the folded out flat backseat of my truck.

Last night it got down to 11 degrees and there was a layer of ice on the inside of the

windows. My water bottles were frozen about a quarter the way through in toward the

center, and it was cold. Got up well before dawn and climbed a big ridge where from the far side across on and

from the far side across the valley I had glassed some elk last night

and they were all cows. There's actually a pretty big herd of them with calves and then I saw a single young cow down in the bottoms and kind of bumped her a little bit she was about 500 yards from me but it told me that there are elk using the area. So I hunted that big

ridge this morning and it was a beautiful glorious cold morning but foggy. There's a kind of a creek or a small river running through the valley a few miles

down below and clearly the air temperature is much colder than that water because it

created vast amounts of steam that formed into a fog banks and moved up through my

basin and I couldn't see much most of the morning.

Every once in a while I'd catch a glimpse down through the fog bank and glass as hard as I could,

but I eventually left off my strategy of glassing the big wide open basin that I wanted to watch

and moved up to the head of it where it kind of funnels into a point that I believe sort of directs

elk and concentrates them as they move up away from their feeding grounds that they use at night up into their bedding country.

Now it's not a true funnel with proper barriers that force them to use it.

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