This is our third full day in Lander, and we’ve made some great progress getting the camp in place. Every day we’ve been able to put an important piece into place. Monday, we headed over to Lander to get the RV and small trailer up to camp. There was no snow on the road, which was a big surprise for us. Our first trek up the road is almost always preceded by putting on tire chains. Tuesday was actually a bit snowy, but luckily not windy, and we managed to get the office trailer delivered from Casper. Last year we waited several days for favorable conditions for the delivery. Gail got most things working in the RV, and we spent our first night up at Chicken Camp. Today we got the port-a-potty delivered (another very important part of camp life!), and got our mobile wireless device activated. We’ve still got a few things like fixing the hot water heater and hooking up the electricity in the office trailer, but we feel like progress towards a working camp has been good so far.
This was also the first morning we had a chance to try to do something with the grouse as well. We headed out towards Chugwater Lek, which is past camp along the access road. No birds yet, and any tracks older than a day would have been covered up by the new snow. We did see some nice fresh fox tracks, and could chart it’s path as it marked it’s territory at several bushes on the lek. We did see a couple of groups of sage grouse along the road, so we know they are out there!