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THE ELK
  
 
CREEK BUCK
  
 
By LIONEL ATWILL
  
 
Visions of a monster mulie drew us
 
 

back to hunt the same mountain.

  
     
 
There is a continuum to be found in the mountains.... One wonders, will it last?
  
Glassing the bowl for deer. Others had watches here before.
Photograph By Lionel Atwill
   

Big mountains are schizophrenic mountains: One minute they beguile you with eye-popping vistas; the next they turn ugly and try to kill you. This one was after me now. It had lured me up a steep slope that dead-ended in a castle of rock—a reef, I think they're called. Then it enticed me up the reef. From 200 yards downslope the approach looked like a hard walk or an easy scramble. The mule deer on top made the decision easy.
     
  Article By Lionel Atwill  
  Sports Afield March 1993 Page 1
 
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