{"id":17,"date":"2008-06-24T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2009-02-25T02:31:12","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T21:31:12","slug":"elk-on-ridge-near-sweathouse-creek-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/elk-on-ridge-near-sweathouse-creek-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Elk on ridge near Sweathouse Creek Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wapiti is a Native American word for elk. We love elk and that is why we called the fishing business Wapiti Waters.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/uploaded_images\/IMG_0662_cropped_blog-719370.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[17]\"><img style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/uploaded_images\/IMG_0662_cropped_blog-719367.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Because I work in our home office, I couldn&#8217;t go fishing today. But, I did take my usual fitness break and go hiking. Sweathouse Creek is very near our Chickadee Lane home (5 miles west of Victor, MT). I am lucky because there is access to many ridges with elk, deer, moose, turkeys, and lots of beautiful flora as well. Today I had the priviledge of seeing a small herd of elk, mostly cows with calves. My trusty chesapeake female saw them at her favorite watering hole and came running back to me. Just before she did, a cow that was bedded down caught my eye because she &#8220;twitched&#8221; her ears&#8230;.here is a photo. Click on it to open it full screen.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Click the title above to see more. I had a little difficulty focusing while containing my dog and trying to stay calm myself. I hope you enjoy them. Get out, get fit and get to know your resident wildlife!<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/uploaded_images\/IMG_0684-bela.in.creek.blog-764684.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[17]\"><img style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/uploaded_images\/IMG_0684-bela.in.creek.blog-764644.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>My faithful companion, Bela (the chesapeake) enjoying herself at the end of our hot hike!<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wapiti is a Native American word for elk. We love elk and that is why we called the fishing business Wapiti Waters. Because I work in our home office, I couldn&#8217;t go fishing today. But, I did take my usual fitness break and go hiking. Sweathouse Creek is very near our Chickadee Lane home (5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[125,193],"tags":[32,34,33,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}