2 years ago I got a cow high up on a mountainside. She slid into some really nasty brush where I couldn't budge her by myself. I had to be a lumberjack for a while to cut the brush just be able to dress & skin her. It was getting dark before I got her done. It was raining & about 35F so cooling wasn't a problem. I skinned the quarters and left her whole overnight. I have llamas now so getting her out the next day was fairly easy once I got her boned out.
If I'd shot her there in the morning of a hot day, it would have been very different as the brush offered no shade at all besides being on a south slope. I'd have had my hands full if that had been the case.

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