Our goal for today, after re-acquainting ourselves with the breakfast menu at the Oxbow, was to try to get the travel trailer up the hill to camp. This is often one of the hardest tasks, since we need to tow it up on a curvy, often snowy or muddy road, and more than once we’ve drifted into a ditch or otherwise gotten into trouble.

The Hudson-Atlantic City Road (or HAC) had close to a foot of snow on it, although there were some nice tracks to follow and we didn’t have any problems driving up there. Heading up the hill we scared up a large golden eagle who kept landing ahead of us then taking off again as we got closer. I ended up getting one of my better golden eagle pics when he settled a little longer on the fence near the road.



Unfortunately when we arrived at the pull-off where we set up our camp, it was pretty clear we would not be able to maneuver a trailer given the loose gravel and snow drifts. We put on our shiny new chains but the truck was still hard to control, and would be a lot worse with a large trailer behind it.



We headed back down the hill and stopped at the first house- a rancher we’d waved hello to before but hadn’t really talked to. Jim turned out to be a really nice funny guy, and we were glad that our need to find someone with a snow plow finally led us to introduce our selves and get to know one of our neighbors out here!

After arranging to meet Jim tomorrow morning, we headed to Riverton to pick up the trailers at Four Seasons. Gail noticed the really bizarre pattern of ice crystals on the wheel hubs. Kind of creepy!



The trailers are in Hudson now, and we’re back in the Pronghorn.