Flip-Flop Hunt
15 Sep
Archery Deer Hunting Estes Park Lumpy Ridge Background
Fall Colorado archery hunting big game is all about big views, solitude and sometimes mental anguish. Yesterday late afternoon I drove to Estes Park, CO and parked my truck at Bill Brown’s cabin and started to get on my hunting gear in anticipation of a deer hunt on my friend Robin Randall’s 100 acre spread physically adjacent to Rocky Mountain National Park. Hunting areas don’t get much better then this with views of Lumpy Ridge from the entire east end of his property to Longs Peak and the continental divide on the West side. Not to mention the bugling elk herd bulls that echo up from valley bottoms at dawn and dusk daily mixed with fox, grouse, turkey, falcon, and hawk sightings. Above all else these hunts remind me how small we are in relation to His creations.
However, my pre-hunt ritual was not going well. I forgot my hunting shoes and only had flip-flops to negotiate the rocky cactus infested terrain. For a split second it crossed my mind to skip the hunt and drive back to Denver. Fortunately, that split second passed and my senses returned. I donned the remaining gear and headed out on my usual counter clockwise loop sticking to easier terrain so as not to incur a foot injury.
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