The Kids have a snaring success!!!

Travel is still a little sketchy depending which direction you may try to go; in fact, parts of the river are still open. This blurry shot was taken from the classroom the other morning, as the sun was creating steam over the open water:


Because of that, we haven't gotten far to make more sets. Just yesterday was our first trip skiing across the river. Still haven't gotten the machine from Pilot yet either, of course. Maybe the trails will be all set soon.

Anyway, the snare set from the last post, that we set on Friday, was the ticket. Turns out one of the Trapping Club members noticed that a snare was set off over the weekend - a miss - and reset it - and it was a good thing he did, as that snare happened to be the one that connected.

The first critter of the school year is on the stretching boards! It took us most of the day because the little varmint was frozen through the afternoon, but we got him processed and stretched...
Here he is before the first cut...