Spring in the high arctic

[Rick P]

My freinds who live in the bush, some 150 miles from a road, decided to give road life a try for the summer............so they got a job on the haul road!!(thaks to the discovery channel you know it as the ice road). They know the north slope is my favorite place on earth, the taunting to come up for the summer has been nonstop since they got settled in!

This morning I got a lovely e-mail letting me know the caribou migration had started. Lori was enjoying a cup of coffee on the cabin porch when she took this. Some 125,000 animals will walk through there valley over the next few weeks.

The ones with antlers, male or female?

 

[ed4copies]

My freinds who live in the bush, some 150 miles from a road, decided to give road life a try for the summer............so they got a job on the haul road!!(thaks to the discovery channel you know it as the ice road). They know the north slope is my favorite place on earth, the taunting to come up for the summer has been nonstop since they got settled in!

This morning I got a lovely e-mail letting me know the caribou migration had started. Lori was enjoying a cup of coffee on the cabin porch when she took this. Some 125,000 animals will walk through there valley over the next few weeks.

The ones with antlers, male or female?

From what I have read, they could be either. Caribou grow antlers, be they male or female.

Which leads me to believe there will be some pen material left in their wake, when the migration is complete>:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

 

[Rick P]

LOL Yes there will be!

But right now the antlers are limitted to one sex. I'm looking into a hunt for meat for the family and sheds for pens right now.

 

[Rick P]

They walk the ridges for miles like this. Wise old mother up front, dominant bull and his best men keeping the group protected and together at the back. Best way to stalk in close is wait till 1/3 of the herd has marched past and then keep low, move at a crawl and quietly make a approach. The ones in the middle tend to be young and inexperianced. Often they wont bolt even if they do see you.