CouesWhitetail

Looks tasty! I bet the biscuits will be great!

Yes, all coues in AZ, and Boone Crockett acknowledges them as such from anywhere in the state.

yes, they are whitetail....nice pics.... as someone else pointed out, the first two pics are mule deer for comparison. the ones she is asking about are the lower two pics.

I don't have the newest version with built in GPS.....you would have to ask Delorme those questions. Their website describes the different models and their capabilities.

Have a great birthday TJ (even if you have to celebrate a day late!!!)

Have a great day after birthday party TJ!!

here is a screen shot from the tracking map from a backpack trip a couple days ago. It was set to put a waypoint every 10 mins. You can share the map with as many people as you like and they can all watch your progress. People can view it as a topo map or as aerial photo. And you can send "I'm OK' messages as well as use the SOS button to get emergency medical care. This is the map your friends/family will see when you share your trip with them. they can click on each dot and get the date and time you were there so they can track your progress.

Are you asking me this question or the original poster? What's the UP website?

great battery life! It is rechargeable by USB cable. And lightweight. Larger than spot unit, but you can do more with it. They came out with a new model recently that has the ability to have GPS waypoints in it too.

I will be praying for you. Sorry you have such a touch road to travel. Let's hope the doctors give you the best treatment possible!

Let's hope someone finds the dog and returns it.

Wow! Looks like a great hunt! Thanks for supporting wildlife conservation by purchasing your trip at the AES banquet. I enjoyed the story about the giraffes! Congratulations on your hunts! And thanks to Bill Quimby for sharing his knowledge about African hunts so you could have the best experience possible!

Nice pics! I love the hummingbird hazing the Harris Hawk!

I can't help with a satellite phone, but another option is the Delorme Inreach. It's a two-way satellite communicator. We used them everyday this summer for my owl surveys since we work off-trail at night in remote areas. You can set it to send whoever you want a map with your location every ten minutes. And you can send and receive email and texts. It has trouble in some steep-walled canyons, but generally worked very well for us. You can google it to see about it. The nice thing is they have a plan where you can change the level of service each month so you don't have to commit to a year long plan. So you can upgrade the plan to include lots of texts/emails during your hunt and then downgrade or even stop service the next month.

I hope you draw that tag again when you get back!

I have never seen one, but apparently AZ does have weasels, and AGFD website shows their range up in/near 6a. Their descriptions doesn't sound the same, but could just be color variation. Likely this is what you saw. Google Arizona weasel and click on images to see pics. Some are very yellow. http://www.azgfd.gov/h_f/game_weasel.shtml

I know what you mean Ilene....those dried fruits don't look very appetizing, but they really are wonderful! Once you taste one you get over the look of them. Oneshot....the taste varies a little between saguaros, and even within the fruits on one saguaro. A few of them will have mold or worms in side....stay away from those! But most of the dried ones are perfectly preserved and super sweet. Any grass seeds stuck to the dried ones that have fallen will wash off very easily with a quick rinse.

It's the time of year when saguaro fruits are ripe and we went out and picked a bucket full the other day. We used to do this every year, but the last few years we haven't been able to make it happen. But this weekend on the way back from the Hunting Heritage Workgroup meeting up in Flagstaff I had my husband meet me to do some pickin'. And wow, I had forgotten how tasty this fruit is! We use a rigged up pole to poke the fruit off the saguaros. This is the fun part because I get to use the pole while my poor husband tries to catch the falling fruit in a 5 gallon bucket while on a steep slope with lots of prickly plants all around him. The fruit doesn't always fall right where it should, so he has to scramble at times and it's pretty entertaining for me! LOL! In addition to the fruit on the saguaro arms, there was tons of dried fruit on the ground or in the bushes around the saguaro. These dried fruits are ideal! They are super sweet and perfect for eating. They don't look as nice as the wet fruit on the saguaros but the flavor is far more intense. Some pics: bucket of fruits, mostly the dried ones that had fallen already...these are the tastiest moist fruit (how it looks if you poke it off the saguaro) all the fruit scooped out of the shells and rinsed So what do we do with this fruit? Well, I make scones with it and they are AWESOME! scone shaped and on baking sheet ready for oven baked scones scones sliced open with some blueberry jam a friend made us and this year, based on suggestion from a friend, I tried making saguaro fruit dipped in chocolate. I tried dark chocolate and white chocolate. And I tried them with lots of chocolate vs just a light coating. My husband and I decided that the best ones are a light dipping of dark chocolate. I don't have pics of the lightly dipped ones, but here are pics of the heavily coated ones. These taste good, but you get less fruit flavor. With a lighter coating of chocolate it's a perfect match of flavors! I love enjoying all the desert has to offer! If you live near some saguaros...get out there and try some!

here is the scone recipe in case anyone wants to use it....this makes really moist scones, which I prefer to drier ones. 2 cups flour 2 TBS sugar (for sprinkling on top of the scones) 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 cup butter 1/2 cup heavy cream 1 egg I added about a 1/2 cup of saguaro fruit and that seemed about right, but you can add more or less as you wish. Combine dry ingredients in mixing bowl. Using a pastry blender or a fork, cut butter into the dry ingredients until the butt is the size of small peas (this is pretty easy to do with a fork). Add remaining ingredients until dry ingredients are moist. Gather dough into a ball and put on floured surface and pat into a circle that is about 3/4 inch thick. cut into 8 wedges. If you want smaller ones, you can make the dough into 3 smaller circles and then cut into wedges. Place on greased cookie sheet. Sprinkle with sugar if you wish. Bake 12 minutes at 425 F or until golden brown These are wonderful scones! You can substitute any fruit or combine fruits to make them however you wish. Or add orange or lemon zest if you like. If you don't want to bother with all the ingredients, you could always buy a box of scone mix and just add the fruit.

The Tohono O'odham apparently make a mild wine from the fruit, but you would have to pick a lot to do that. We enjoy eating them instead. The seeds have a fun crunch. And the dried fruit is so sweet. The season for picking is nearing the end, but we found a fair amount still out there. And TJ, yes, that is the salt river bridge on the road up to Young. There are good numbers of saguaro between Globe and the turn off to Young.

nope...no snakes, but I was expecting to see some, definitely keep your eye out if you go out pickin.. It was a nice evening, some cloud cover kept it from being sweltering we topped it off by taking our dog Julie for a swim at the river

roasted? did you mean to type rotated? are you using an iphone or a mac computer? Seems like people who use those get their photos changed from how they see them. I don't know why, seems to be related to the device operating system.

Wow, that's shocking.....that takes some serious effort to make....what kind of tools are neccessary to bend and shape rebar? And they look like they are painted to be less visible....wow...

That is very sad.....

LOL! You guys crack me up..... Happy Bday Casey! Hope you had a great one and got to celebrate with your family!