A woman came into the store yesterday with purple fingertips. She described a trip she took with her family in their ATV's on a Forest Service Road not too far from the resort where there were tons of berry bushes - rasberry and blackberry. We, of course, could hardly wait to get off work at 3 PM so we could check it out. We grabbed the camera and loaded a small cooler with water and headed out to FS road 141, about 5 miles from the lodge. All along the road for about the first 3 miles into the forest were boon dockers camping in the forest. We got about 5 miles into the forest and saw this elk:
Even though you can't see his head in this picture, we saw that it was a spike bull elk after he moved out from behind the tree. The road was one that connected with the Rim Road that we traveled early on in our local travels. We eventually got to where the berry bushes were but the season for the berries is just about over and almost all the areas we saw with the bushes were dried up or the berries were already picked. We decided that if we were to come back we would have to come out about the first of August, or late July to have a chance to get some berries. Anyway, even though we came home with an empty bucket, it was nice to take this mini trip during the work week.
The kitchen staff brought us some BBQ ribs that were left over from the dinner service. We were so tired from the work day and mini trip that we turned in early last night, only to be awakened by the knock on the door. They must think we turn in early every night. That's OK though - we'll take the free dinners anytime. We'll have the ribs tonight.
Today is our noon to 6 PM shift so we have to close tonight. At least we get to relax this AM...
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