Trail Log: 10-24-2019

Glassing the meadow 

• Trail: Squaw Creek - Mill Creek Summit
• Miles: 19.89
• Riders: Self - Linda E
• Horses: Jack and Ranger
• Trail Rating: 2.8

Notes: Went back up the mountain to hunt for game and my dads knife I'd lost the week before. We planned to drive up Wednesday evening and put the horses in Bev's corrals - then haul up to the Summit and saddle up. We missed the gate to the corrals and ended up camping along Squaw Creek. It worked out better being close to the creek for the horses to water.

We were up early Thursday morning  - drove to the summit and took off on horseback. We decided to hunt for deer on the way up to the base of Buck Mountain where I felt I most likely lost my dads knife. If my knife wasn't there - we would hunt for it as we came back down.

If anyone doubts the power of prayer - they aren't paying much attention. Every step we took - every misstep - the weather - the conditions of the trail...from the closing of one season to the opening of the next. From Linda's familiarity of the mountain, to getting a little turned around -  to my GPS reading -  everything led us to spotting that knife where we least expected it...not 1/4 way from where we first noticed it missing. With knife in hand - we were able to spend the majority of the day hunting game and enjoying the mountain. We both knew that Dad and Devon rode the trail with us, keeping us safe and making sure we found that knife.

Dads knife