The third week in October was the annual Hawker hunt. I went down south to hook up with my grandpa, dad, and brother, and off to the mountains we went: in our orange gear, guns in hand, and completely unprepared for how cold it was going to be this year. BRRRR!!!!! Usually the weather is fairly mild, but this year it was below freezing almost all day, the wind was blowing fiercely (the snow was almost horizontal), and i got sick.
Fortunately, i had a whole case of hand warmers, which we all generously used to keep from freezing entirely. For me, the trip was a bust, but my dad got a good sized deer that he’s going to share (mom won’t let him keep it; she never does)
There were two very exciting parts of the trip that had nothing whatsoever to do with the hunt. First, as we were up early in the morning (5am early) getting ready to head out into the hills, i looked up into the sky and saw the most amazing meteor. It started out almost directly overhead and slowly moved across the sky. It was a blood red color had a very long tail, and was moving very slowly. Most meteors go “ZIP”, leave a faint white tail for 1/10 of a second and are gone. This one just kept on going and going. It was probably 30 seconds before it disappeared on the horizon. As it was going out of view, it broke up into two distinct pieces, one trailing after the other.
The second cool thing was found in the afternoon on the first day out. I was hiking on the side of a hill when i looked down and noticed a rock that was very out of place. I bent down and picked it up. It was an arrowhead! As far as i can tell, it’s genuine. Here’s a picture:
