My friend, Frank “Muskie” Maus did out annual mid-winter hike time today. Frank wanted to explore some new woodland areas bordering a Pennsylvania Game Lands. He has a nephew who purchased some acreage with a home so the potential of hunting the area needed some exploration. I have been on these particular game lands, at least, three or four times, but not on the acreage mentioned above.
Hill Country!
The area is typical with some old, long-abandoned, highwall mining sites, Autumn Olive and multiflora thickets. While traveling through these wooded areas we saw plenty of deer tracks.
We circled the hill’s edge and returned to the road before traveling to another site familiar to Frankie as a hunter. AT this site we traveled along some high and steep river hills. We could see the mighty Allegheny River at times.
We didn’t make to this slope!
During this venture we saw around 10-12 Wild Turkeys. I arrived home after 1:00 so our time afield covered over four hours. Snow was still present in most of the areas we hiked. We, both, enjoy having some snow to help us see and observe tracks. Talks of another venture were made and we discussed future fishing adventures.
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Hey Larry, Did you see in today’s newspaper that Dick Fox passed away? How are you and Frankie doing?Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
Jimmy, I did see that. I was just asking about Dick last Sunday. WE are both doing well for a couple of old guys!