Melting water at 11,000 feet

The things you have to do to get water in the desert... sometimes that means hiking up to the glacier to melt ice down for drinking water. But the benefit to that is sometimes you will find that elusive buck just over that glacier. The monster mule deer were above 10,000 feet so Adam and Keith backpacked in outside of Bishop and camped at 9,500. It was one of Adams best hunting trips. They were seeing at least seven bucks a day, some chuckar and grouse. When they were there two weeks before they also saw a black bear that came up pretty close to camp. They stalked a huge 30 inch wide 4x3 for two days and had to really take their time getting near him. Adam got close to taking him with his archery bow, but just missed. The boys were exhausted and stinky when they got home but they had a great time and maybe next time they will bring back some meat.