Hunt Mountain

Joanie and I were lucky enough to spend one week in the Big Horn Mountains camped at about 9600 feet on the divide between Grouse Creek and Hidden Teepee Creek. The rocks to our west shielded us from the West Wind, the trailer handled the East Wind and I positioned the truck to block the North wind. That worked real well until the wind shifted to the South ... We spent two nights under the stars observing the Perseid meteor shower, satellite flashes at dawn were icing on the cake. After these two great nights, the wind shifted and the weather changed, bring snow on August 15th. Luckily the heater in the trailer kept all systems above freezing. When the weather cleared, the full moon rose over the Big Horn peaks to the north. Finally, while hiking into Hidden Teepee, we came across two horses staked out by a sheperd further down the valley. He passed us silently with one of his dogs. Below, we found his flock tucked into the timber, guarded by three very large white dogs. We met a father and daughter team one morning at camp, they were surveying teepee rings. Turns out the Indians liked our spot as much as we did - our fire ring was at the western edge of one of three tepee rings at our camp. When time came to pull the trailer out of camp, I did a few road repairs, warmed up the truck, ran it back and forth a bit, then over the ridge on my desired line. Hooked up to the trailer and pulled it out no problem. Which was a good thing, because I was sweating it a bit ...