Spotting Week #1 June 4

The first trip up the canyon. Are eyes are wide with excitement and our lungs are finally filling with that sweet mountain air. Does it get any better than this? We have our sights on a few historically great canyons to scout and more then anything we're all just glad to be getting rid of this itch that's been pestering us all winter long. The outcome: Plenty of elk, a few small deer and a couple bulls that were growing some potentially perfect brow tines. The highlight of the trip however was on the ride home. We came upon a couple fawn in the road that were so had a really hard time walking themselves off the road. It was dark and our gear was stashed away so all I could get was a couple pics with my phone using a low lights from the 4-wheelers. It's such an amazing thing to see these animals in any situation but nothing has ever woken to the reality of the great outdoors more than this moment of seeing these tiny deer in such a vulnerable state. We sat back and waited for them to move off the road as not to startle them any more, but even then they couldn't make it up the small hill that was off the side of the road. They could have easily been born just a few hours earlier.