Widow 5/4/08

May 4, 2008

Today was a perfect day — bright blue sky with big puffy clouds, warm, 70’, and some wind. However, the wind was doing crazy things, swirling around in all different directions, one moment giving great lift and the next pushing Widow down to the ground. It took Widow a good 45 minutes to figure out the wind gusts; once she did, up she went to a spec. She came over us and I threw out the lure and down she came, getting faster and faster.

Cordi and I started climbing up the mountain in an effort to get on top of the cliff. The hope was that it would be a better camera angle. We made our way back and forth going up the hill and when we got almost to the top I looked for a safe place to climb up the last rocks. I started to go to the left but wanted to check out a path to the right first. Just as I moved to my right a large rattlesnake sounded off at eye level right in front of us. If I had gone to the left as I originally started to do, I would have put my hand right on top of him. Needless to say, we moved back down the cliff and looked for another way up. That was close, very close!