Marten Trapping

This morning I got up at 7:00am to go trapping with a friend. I needed to be down to there place by 7:45am I was down there on time and we went down to the boat and got on our why to the trap line. It was cold on our way to the boat and it was even cold and snowier when we got to the trap line. We anchored and went a shore. It was very snowy it was about six inches deep by the ocean and it got deeper as we hike. While we were hiking we saw some blood in the snow and some deer hair on the snow. We hike up aways further and put on our snow shoes that we had brot with us. I one spot it was about one or two feet deep. We caught three big marten and one small marten they also caught a marten in a set that they had caught nothing in in the ten years that they had it set up. We also caught one squirrel that I carried for a while and then when we got to one of there last set  we sat down and one of them poled out a little stove and heated up some water from the river and we had hot chocolate and coffee. I saw one set of marten tracks up there and quite a few otter slides and places where they had played. On our way back we took some landscape photos and when we got back to the boat there was a couple of people that we had pasted on the way up saying that there boat had frozen up and so we toed they and while we were toeing them two more boats waved us down and so we were toeing three boats at one time. We did not need to toe the other two boat very far though after we dropped those two boats off we took the finally one to the harbor then went to the harbor that we were in. It turn in to a little more of an adventure then what I thought it would but it was still fun.slmlk-jpg-jpgslmlk-jpgslmlk

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