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had a tough time deciding between hiking on the trails at 15 degrees and a 25 mph wind or go to the gym

squats 5/5/5+ @65/75/85% of 1RM
bench 5/5/5+ @65/75/85% of 1RM
pullups 3x12
dips 3x30
core

phug hiking when its below 20

gym followed by pickle ball and sauna

only got to 17 today, BUT very little wind and the sun was out- so hit the trails for 4 miles

3 hours of chainsaw and shovel work. Just about got it ready for gravel.

5 miles on the trails with Tiny E, heat wave at 23 degrees!

14 miles strolling through the park

Nice!

9 miles scouting elk yesterday...Then another mile when I got home to air the dog out. Drove around scouting today. Road hunters suck! 😬😎

damn road hunters!

10 miles in about 10" of snow whipped me pretty good; only one fresh track, a bull, but he was heading off the top into a completely different drainage and I was NOT dropping into that one

5 mile recovery hike with Tiny E, good to get the blood pumping through the legs vs sitting at home with sore legs!

I resemble that remark. My Achilles is still quite sore; has spread to the whole bleeping ankle now. Was just hobbling around Home Depot; I think that was my big move for the day.

^ get better soon

got energetic and went to the gym

deadlifts 5/5/5+ @ 65/75/85% of 1RM
overhead press 5/5/5+ @ 65/75/85% of 1RM
lunges 3x30 yds
chin ups 3x13
core

went out with a buddy for an afternoon/evening elk hunt- 8 pretty tough miles; didn't see any elk- but the area looks promising, alarm is set for 4:00 AM and going to give it another go tomorrow

it was a perfect morning, in what appeared to be the perfect spot- glassed for two hours starting at first light and nothing (well a cool badger hunting :)), made a big loop hoping to cut a fresh track and none to be had

11 pretty tough miles

will hit another spot tomorrow

walking the rifle some more; it's going to be the fittest rifle in the land 13-ish miles w/ about 4000' of gain. I'll tell you what is kicking my butt- it's not the miles or climbing- it's the damn snow, just sucks the life out of you!

found this old cabin in a deep draw, right next to a little spring fed stream- thought how cool would it be to live there in a cabin

Very cool. Well, just not *that* cabin!

yeah a roof is always nice

5 miles with Tiny E on a brisk (mid 20's) afternoon

10 miles walking my rifle; glassed a lot today as the snow was as noisy as I ever hunted in

put a big day in today, little over 13 miles on a ridge I had never hunted before- if I had been here a 1.5-2 weeks earlier, I would have been in a lot of elk; definitely on the next year's list for sure

Thanks for the pics. That's pretty country, and it sure looks like country elk could move around in at will. Keep putting yourself out there and you could very well cross paths. Are you hunting with the '06 M70 again this year?

Still limping around. It's getting better, but apparently a) I really tweaked it and b) I'm getting old and heal slow.