The Marshall 5: Camping in the Uinta National Forest

Over the 4th of July we took an extended camping trip to the Uinta's. It was so great to get out of the heat! Plus it is so beautiful.

I don't know what they are playing, it doesn't matter, because whatever it was they were not fighting!

Paul took the kids on a snipe hunt.

Ellie and her rendition of "Kevin" from the movie up. I can see it, can you. She did this all with no help. What a girl! I'll help you out if your not seeing it. Toward the top left the wood piece there is Kevin's head then follow that down to the back and body. The bottom is his feet and the tail is cut off a bit in the picture.

Trey chilling out on his new camping cot. He can now lay down outside without being on the ground.

Fishing at Whitney Lake

Tinfoil dinner

The night of the 5th of July, we had just gotten the kids down to bed and it was probably about 9:30pm. Paul and I decide to head back outside to enjoy the night sky and cool air for a bit. We come out the door and I turn to the left a bit and look out past the trailer and see Moose here. I let out a little gasp and Paul is like "What" then he sees what I see. Moose is stopped about 50 yards from the trailer in an opening chewing on some grass. He see us and doesn't do anything, but keeps his eye on us. We didn't move for a little bit and were prepared to run back into the trailer if necessary.

Since Moose seemed just fine with what was going on I decided to slowing go back into the trailer for my camera. I grabbed my Nikon D80 which was handy and it had one of my zoom lens on it. I knew this would be a difficult lighting situation because, really there was hardly any light left. I didn't have a tripod with me either. I couldn't use a flash because at 50 yds it wouldn't help and only serve to scare Moose, which I didn't want. So I bumped up my ISO really high and dropped my shutter down and opened up my aperture as much as I could. So the pictures aren't the best but just being there was so cool.

Moose made his way across the clearing, he ended up coming about 30 yds from us. Then made his was across and up the mountain behind the trailer.

Paul and I couldn't believe it, wow, what an experience.