[This is where Isaac has been basing out of for the past week or so... pretty nice stars, huh?]
I said I would keep updating the blog, even though I’m in town for now, so I guess I’d better do an update! I’m not really sure what to write, I’ve been spending my time going in for holistic allergy treatments almost daily, drawing architectural plans (ahem, that might be a stretch, the architectural part anyhow) for our new piece of land south of town where we have giant sized dreams to grow an abundance of food to feed ourselves and the rest of town (yes, a large greenhouse is involved), going for walks (and sometimes gentle runs!), and basically enjoying the heck out of the spring weather that has just begun to saturate the valley. Just begun, mind you. We still have large areas of snow at the yurt, in the shade and in drifted areas. But in town it is mostly green, and biking around yesterday I saw glimpses of tender purpley-blue poking up through peoples yards which, on closer inspection, turned out to be grape hyacinth and chinodoxa flowers (sp?).
I got an update from Isaac (yes, he has a borrowed satellite phone with him, which neither one of us believes in having while out experiencing the wilderness, but in this circumstance, when we didn’t know if I would go in or he would come out, or when for that matter… its complicated… and yes, those are all just excuses, can ya tell I’m embarrassed??). ANYway, so I got an update from him just this morning, and here is how he’s been spending his time: hiking all over the place in search of spring that has not fully sprung, even there at lower elevation, not finding much wolf activity until just yesterday when he ran into a single wolf up high on Horse Mountain, and then the whole pack hunting elk when he woke up this morning (!), seeing one rattlesnake which seemed very slow and still fairly cold and unactive, and deciding his pack was too heavy (110 lbs.) to hike the 17 miles to where he thinks the Monumental densite might be… smart decision!
He’ll probably head out here to the front country tomorrow (there’s a flight going in to Taylor Ranch, which he’ll jump on to get back out), and from there we’ll make a decision of where to go next. So much for two-legged wilderness travel. I am very disappointed that I am not able to do that right now (with weight anyhow), but in order to make it possible in the future, I need to take care of myself now.
