My story and photos of the Crazy Mountain Ranch

3.31.2011

Day Two - Wilderness Tour and an Awesome Dinner

So once we got done with lunch, we headed to the Stage Stop for our next activity, the Wilderness Tour. It was a nice wind down for the day, but could have been a bit more exciting. We first drove around with two instructors while they showed up some of the wildlife on the ranch. We saw a pretty blue bird, some Magpies, a Bald eagle feeding off a dead deer stuck to a barbed wire fence (eeuw, I know), a bunch of White Tailed Deer, and a few hawks. Then we stopped at a tent and wandered a little. In one spot they had a recent dead deer where they had a motion camera so they could see what wildlife was in the area. One picture they showed us was the back of a mountain lions head! The also documented badgers, pack rats, and deer. Then they lead us to another spot where they had two skulls, one from an elk, and a deer. One thing I learned is that Elk have literal ivory tusks, but they only grow to about a half inch or so. Lastly they took us back to the tent, where they showed us the picture from the camera, some pelts, which included a brown black bear, a fox, and a bobcat. And they showed us the skulls in the picture below.










A beaver , a pack rat, a badger, a deer, and a bobcat.
 





We headed back to the ranch town after the tour, where we relaxed for a little while before going to the saloon to relax more before dinner. Then dinner was announced, well two dinners. One was in the saloon, and the other in the Livery. We ended up going to the livery and stayed there until we went to our room. The dinner was Awesome, and so was desert, which was a build your own Sunday, with house made vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ice cream! Yummy.

Most of the coolest group at the ranch, hehe. Plus one of the many coolest staff, Jessica! (She's in the black cowboy hat)
This awesome kitty was in the rafters of the Livery.
James doing karaoke of Journey's Don't Stop Believing.


Our awesome group ended up doing the most karaoke that night. I only got a small video of James singing Journey, and his second song, Blink 182's What's My Age Again, he hasn't uploaded yet. I originally wasn't gonna sing any songs, but near the end of the night, I joined the girls to do two songs.
The awesome girls. Summer, Tifini, Sarah, me, and Cristen.
And the awesome guys. Peter, Zach, Jake, James, and Tommy.

Once we finished with the last song or so, we headed back to our room, to sleep and get ready for the next day...

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