Adventure #1,005: Chukar Hunting: Giving It One More Hoorah

Is there anything better than getting up early in the morning, grabbing a black cup of coffee, a few country CD’s and getting out of town and off road as quickly as possible? With chukar and quail season coming to a close, the plan of attack was to give it one last hoorah and try to close out the season with a ‘Bang’. Of course, for us, things never seem to happen as smoothly and as close to the plan as we would anticipate that it should.


Seems that every stop we made throughout the day lead us to a wet and snowy hike, bone chilling temperatures and a whole lotta nothing. Where do all those dang birds go when it snows?

Besides not getting to close the season with a ‘Bang’, we still found ourselves having one heck of a great adventurous day. It doesn’t even seem to matter if you travel the same road multiple times, there’s always something new to look forward too seeing.


For instance when we began our journey, we drove by Pyramid Lake for the umpteenth time and noticed how turquoise the water was from the approaching storm, ran across four Golden Eagles, 2 deceased burrows, a couple of living burrows, a couple dozen wild horses, a couple dozen rainbow trout and to top it off we saw one heck of a WIDE Buck and his little friend running alongside the Black Rock Desert. So what if we never saw any chukar, we’ve always got next season.


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