Today, Herb and I drove up Glenrosa Road to the Crystal Mountain/Mount Last area, intending to place a trail camera in an area which might still have moose and deer. These ungulates move down to lower levels in the winter, when deepening snow levels make it difficult for them to find food. Deer move down first, then later, even the long legged moose has to move lower.

Today where we donned our snowshoes, the snow was over a metre deep--and more of it falling. There were a few old moose tracks punched deep into the snow but no fresh tracks to be seen. I found a place near a small swamp for the trail camera but when I had it mounted on a tree overlooking an old animal trail, I found that its batteries were depleted--and I thought I had loaded it with fresh batteries! That calls for a return trip very soon.

In late December of 2012, for just one week, I had a trail camera in this same area. In that one week, it produced pictures of a snowshoe hare and a mule deer doe.

Also at that time, the snow was about a metre deep but this doe was still in the area. She was working very hard to find forage, however, as the camera showed her spending a long time, a couple of hours, pawing away the snow to reach and feed on a large bush of falsebox (Paxistema myrsinites).