After getting four from each Push Up we shut the Musquash trapping down. A great total of 45 in a week. These are big extra fat beautiful Muskrats. This morning we got a Big Shadow Black Male Wolf.
Been busy doing inventory of supplies, getting fire wood and getting ready to go out. Counting seed potatoes to fly out and figuring out what can be let freeze and still be good. We decided to put the Cetol paint in plastic bags plus the 3 remaining Mayo jars down the well on rope.
Hopefully we will have Company for the five days before we fly out. Our friend Gary is suppose to fly in here for a visit.
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Bryan finds the Push ups and then shovels off the snow, cuts the weed dome off with his chainsaw, puts a small trap in the hole and covers the hole with a cardboard box that he has cut a big hole in the top of. This hole is covered with a piece of wood and then snow. We've caught 13 in 2 days. We plan to take 4 from each site. We mark the flagging tape for each one. Thanks Muddy Water for the hint.
The Muskrat pushups seem to be just air holes. Not the usual place they are eating the weeds in. Too difficult to trap. Bryan just put them back the way they were.
Heading back across the middle of the lake with Vikki following. A big hole in the ice was overflowing a large area. Bryan stopped and waved Vikki to keep coming fast. Bryan's tracks are on the right... Vikki stayed a little off to the side on the previously laid trail. Her Tundra 300 at full throttle and wagging thru the soft slush. This will harden up. Once we lay the lake trail we always use the same path so that the ice gets harder and thicker there. It's very important especially in the spring.
Bryan placed sticks on one side to mark it.
This is the first winter in 6 years that Mountain Goats are wintering right behind our base cabin. To the far top right you can see the heavily snow worked area... That is the first thing we saw and then we started to look for the Goats. Come down the picture to the tall single tree at bottom left of center. They are right behind it. We saw three but there might be more.
In the above picture there are six Mushrat pushups. They find warm air holes and make pack them with lake weeds. If you go in the top and put your hand down there is a big room down there for eating above the water line.
