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Congrats on your first bull! But yes, we need pix!

5B-North will always be special to me. Mainly because I took my first bull there, but also because of the experience I had taking the bull out. I dropped the bull then spent the remainder of the day and part of the next making trips back and forth to my truck taking him out piece by piece. The least path of resistence back to the road took me by a make-shift memorial - a cross with the name Adrian Villa on it. This cross was placed about 20 yards off the dirt road and down a drop off maybe 6-8 feet. There was a path passing right in front of the cross, and I mean inches away. My brother and I had to walk the path every trip back and forth to the truck. This path had elk tracks in it too. If it were my cross I think that would be cool. I must of passed that cross 10 tens back and forth, paying my respects each time. On our last trip, my brother and I almost simultaneously stated we would like to go back to that cross one more time and decorate it a little, even if only with pinecones and some pine needle filled branches. We made our way back, and sometime between our previous trip and the last, the cross was decorated. Someone had slipped in between those trips and placed some items there.

I wished I could have met the people (perhaps family), because I really became curious as to who this person was. Sounds wierd, but we almost become friends during that time I spent hauling out my bull. From that day on, I simply refer to that part of 5B-North as Adrian Villa.