Lon my friend how are you. I have been way busy. Seems like the desire to live on the edge and go pro video it for everyone in the world to see is becoming epidemic. A lot of young people being injured and some dying. I spent a lot of time on the Mountain this year me my dogs and mules. I ended up catching five bear, two with cubs. I employed the CPR method this spring(catch,photograph,release). I had a lot of time to think, reflect and ponder just what is in store for me, where am I headed. I sat at 11,000 feet after letting a nice bear go one day and thought about what one of my deputies had said to me one day as I was getting ready to go out early the next morning. He asked me why do you go if you have to go alone.

What he does not know is I don't go alone. I used to live in the moment go hard and hit it the next day. I still go hard(not like I used to) I still spend a lot of time with my mules, my dogs and the desert and mountains. I tend to see things differently now. I think of people I consider my family I have never met. They are there, My Kickas family. You are definatly part of it. Ya I thought of you and your struggles as high clouds came by me with the potential of a lightning and storm. I wondered how you were doing if you made it out hunting, fishing? I hope so. I think you would have liked the view across the high desert south of the peak I was sitting on.
I believe you have a birthday tomorrow I hope it is a happy one for you. Sassy will pack you up the mountain anytime if you ever travel to southeast utah. Or we can take my ol boat and go fishing. Or we can just tour around in a car and look the country over and tell stories. Take care of yourself and may God bless you.
ETTE
Darrel