Show What's Doing inTHE InTHE in In- In I THE GREAT OUTDOORS By By Stan Its 1 really realty amazing what well well- J trained dogs can do remarks remark Ken Sommers who accompanied by his his his' B son n Dick witnessed the Salt Sate Lake Open Retriever Trials at Dou Bountiful II I last week The dogs dog had to find two and three fallen bird at a time Inde In de dente dense brush bruth and hundred hundreds of felt fei apart they apart they had to have good od m u as will well a as AI per per- teet noses two of the 17 dogs failed to retrieve their bird bird birdsA birds A lot of ot time and patience go Into training dogs for such keen field competition as that Jack Kensell Hensell and andI Ray nay Owens I I moved onto the Smith range from the south Saturday says Gilbert Porter and covered It from Mahogany to Dig Big Hollow Ve We counted deer and I think we got em nil 1 They counted on Smiths Smith's last year ear We saw a white deer on that Tange range that that was about the this lightest lightest light light- est Ive I've ever seen een seen and Ive I've seen each quite quito a a few light d deer er This one was was really hard to see against a In snow ow background We also alto aiso ed Henefer's areal last area 1st week counting head of venison v t lson 40 less than last year The deer up that Way vay have been LaYing Haying up high though and I think well we'll make another count coital on Several Sev ral persons have told me that thai they Intend to saddle up and end ride out on the East Ca Canyon yon count with us ua tomorrow Using a snow snow cat cat last week says Ray nay Owens we checked the deer population In the south fork tork of ot Chalk Creek We saw That's within five live ot of what we counted last year but then they are a lot more concentrated now no because of the heavy snow whereas we had an early thaw a year ear ago the deer were higher and we M were more apt to miss some Ever Elver hear bow how Jody Smith came by th that t gorgeous hunk of ot horseflesh that hes he's been pam pam- all winter A 41 fellow brought him up fr from m Kearns last fall to use hunting deel deer Jody explains Every Everything thing went fine until he got out of the hills with Ith his deer and loaded his horse Into the trailer for the long ride tide home Hed hardly started down out of Hardscrabble when the cayuse went Into Into a frenz frenzy al al i most tipping the trailer over He stopped toothed soothed the horse and then started out again agall slow Once more the animal became frantic and began rearIng rearing rear rear- Ing up and Jumping this time a couple of spots of hide off on the trailers sides It was the then that the hunter unter came down to my house with house with tears In his eyes eyes and and signed the I big strip strip faced faced sorrel Borrel l over oYer to tome me Me He said he bi wu was fond ond orth brute brut brute and would rather give ghe It awa sway away than risk Injuring or erea eten killing It 1 I fet felt sorry lorry for the guy gu and no now 1 I know why he be liked the horse horae It Its It's a fine flue animal In rut t J Jingles Is II 1 a regular regular pet of oars n w as gentle and tame as a pup P 1 m While taking a w weeks week's co conser ser ration allon course at a couple of months ago Lee Rollins had occasion to get a close Departments Department's look at the Forestry homemade made snow cat cats The shiny wide wide tracked tracked vehicles Impressed impressed Im pressed Lee and at weeks week's end the amateur mechanic returned to Stoddard with a head full of complex com plex plea Ideas Wasting little time Lee Lea pro procured pro cured an ancient Model A Ford gathered up a hundred and one ons rolled up his hi sleeves and went other minor necessities then then to work Last week Lee drove his completed completed com I mountain machine out of ot the garage and nosed It east toward toward to ward the foothills Picking up Navigator Keith Smith and Guide Smith at nt their respective ranches Lee roared off toward the narrow narrow choked snow mouth of Pine Canyon Eight hours and several mechanical me adjustments later the three-man three crew leveled their powerful machine out onto the top of a high mountain ridge and alongside Smiths Smith's log CabIn Cabin Cab Cab- In where they spent the night I f sure had that thing underestimated underestimated under under- estimated Dee admitted upon his return from the successful shakedown climb Its tracks are made out of old pieces of ot rubber belting with belting with 90 lengths of hawthorne stalks bolted bolt ed across them for traction These tracks enabled it to climb prat l y straight up and up and though we were on five live to ten feet of snow at all times Umes the heavy outfit out out- fit lit never once brote through more that three or four Inches That one trip alone was well worth the 30 I put into the r machine says Lee And now taking advantage of what Ive I've learned I intend to build a a snow-bucking snow outfit that will REALLY PERFORM In rough mountain country I |