Back from His Wilderness Adventure – My Son is Home!

Guess who’s back???

Yep, Seth is back… for a short while before he leaves on another work adventure. We got to look at his pictures – all 358 of them and it’s going to be hard narrowing them down for this post since there were so many magnificent scenery shots.

He celebrated his 23rd birthday just before he left Canada for Arizona.  Another mom made his day special by baking and decorating him a cake.  Thanks, Sis. Vickie.

 Seth was all the way in Toad River, BC, 2,500 miles away from home.

To get to the area that he and his cousin would be guiding in, they trailed in with pack horses for 3 days.

Along the way, they stayed in this empty cabin.

Seth’s bed was perched right above another one and was only being held in place by very small pieces of wood and the plywood was bowing.  He was a little worried he’d be smashing his Uncle Paul who was sleeping right below. 🙂

There are so many gorgeous scenery shots that I just can’t narrow it to a few.

The cabin where Seth’s cousin, Nathan (who was a guide also), along with his wife and 3 children stayed for 2 months.

The entire cabin is only 11×12. Kitchen & bedroom all in one.

The outfitters tent where Seth slept as well as the hunters who flew in.  Although Seth & Nathan rode horses in and brought pack horses with supplies, all the hunters were flown in for their hunt and then also flown out.

The way laundry is done in the bush…

How showers are taken…

At least they were able to warm up the water before pouring it into the container.  But you didn’t want to get it too hot like Seth did on one occasion.  He had the nozzle turned to allow the barest trickle and it was still scorching to the skin.  While that small patch of skin was getting roasted the rest of him was getting chilled. 🙂

Great view from the outhouse, I’m sure. 🙂

A real live porcupine.

Here are a few pictures of some of the hunts where Seth was the guide.

This was a film crew for a television station one of the men owned. I believe they were filming the owners daughter’s hunt.

Showing the difference between mountain goat and moose horns.

While there in the bush, Seth saw grizzly bear, elk, moose, mountain goat, Stone sheep, caribou, wolves, marmots, and porcupines. 🙂

There was plenty of water.  Streams, waterfalls & glaciers.

They even had snow twice.

Gorgeous Blue Lake

When packing out there is one area they have to go down that is all rock and it’s steep.  They broke some dirt off and spread it around on the shelf of rock but this horse, Sven, skirted it.  When he did, he took a tumble down the side of the mountain.  Thinking he would have a broken neck or leg and they would have to shoot him, they were quite happy to see the horse had survived with only a severe nose bleed. And he still had on his pack!

This is Tonka, the horse Seth rode most of the time.

Somewhere in British Columbia he found a place named Whiskers Point.  Wonder what trapper/hunter inspired this name? 🙂

Hope you enjoyed this little trip into the bush. 🙂