One Heck of a Weekend

Well I can't say that last weekend was one of our favorites. Hazen was going hunting near Cascade, ID which is about 2 hours drive from Boise. His boss has a cabin there that we stayed at for the weekend. Hunting season started on Saturday but Hazen wanted to go up Friday to scout out where he could find the biggest elk. We drove around all day Friday but the truck just wasn't running right. Stopped by a mechanic that said our clutch was going out. Said there should have been several signs that it was going out before it got to this point and that we wouldn't make it back to Boise. He wouldn't be able to work on it until Monday. We would be stuck in Cascade all weekend with no vehicle (which means no hunting). So what better an option than to disagree with the mechanic and try to make it back to Boise. We made it about 3 miles out of town before there was a horrible noise that sounded like our engine fell out onto the road. Had to have it towed the 3 miles back to Cascade and luckily wasn't taken to the same guy that said we wouldn't make it. Had to call a rental car place in the next town about 30 miles away and have them drive a car to us. Headed back to Boise to get Hazen's work truck then back up to McCall to drop the rental care off before settling in for the night at Hazen's boss' cabin. Lucy and I rested in the cabin all weekend while Hazen hunted. Saw a few elk on Sunday but were gone before he could get a shot at any. Drove the work truck back home Sunday night after his hunting and thought it would be a good idea to try and wreck this one too. It was very dark and didn't see a large boulder in the middle of our lane until we went right over the top of it. The truck was still driveable but didn't sound very good. Looked underneath and lots of stuff looked pretty bad. Luckily we made it home. Had it checked out the next day and we got really lucky. Had to replace the exhaust pipe and that was pretty much it. Several other things (including oil pan and gas tank) got dented but not punctured. Glad to have the weekend over.

Before we had a mechanic look at it.

Warm Lake

Cascade Lake

Buck that Lucy and I snuck up on

Kinda blurry and hard to see, but this is what the buck was up to

Lucy found a friend while we were waiting for the rental car