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That's a great picture, but there is some dispute about the location. I got that same picture in an email from a buddy of mine in Idaho and it said the picture was taken just outside of Boise.
What's with that fence of bony bits in the way of my lunch?
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TedH wrote:That's a great picture, but there is some dispute about the location. I got that same picture in an email from a buddy of mine in Idaho and it said the picture was taken just outside of Boise.
I got it in an email from my son, titled as above. Was going to ask him if he knew the source, but never got to it. He's snowmobiling in Idaho until Sunday. I'll ask him if he knows the source when he gets back.
30+ years and 60+ pounds ago, I guided on the upper reaches of Kelly Creek (upper tributary of the Clearwater), just off the Lolo. There were some dang good elk in there. Nothing could live up there in the winter so I guess they had to go somewhere to get something to eat. Lots of great memories of those days. Beautifull but hard country. Read a great little book of some hunters, shortly after the turn of the century, (the earlier one) that went over the Lolo for some late season hunting. They couldn't get back out the way they came so had to go out the bottom, down the Clearwater. Took them a couple months and a few died in the process.
I lived in Missoula for 15 years and often traveled south to Lolo and I've never seen anything like that...just my guess the picture was taken somewhere else.
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Now that Henry mentions it, going south out of Missoula to Lolo is a pretty narrow winding valley. I don't recall anything that open either. And from the sun on the mountains, I'd say we're looking south. Hard to do that when the road runs south.
I'm not 100% sure but I'm almost positive it's the elk refuge in Jacksonhole, Wyoming. I took several pictures of it when I was there in the winter and it looks an awful lot like this picture. Beautiful place.
I was born and raised around that country and it looks to me like it is the winter range for the RM and Yellowstone heards just outside Jackson Hole, WY.
AHHH, JK, you beat me to it.
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Another reason I believe it's Jacksonhole is that I hunted elk just north of the refuge in November a few years back and had to drive by all those elk that were off limits everyday for a week, so I got a really good look of them.
Weve got a couple wintering areas like that around Oregon too. One near Mist and the other near Elkton. Both in the Coastal range of Oregon.
I always enjoy seeing so many elk in one place. Reminds me that they're still out there in good numbers!