Gut Deer?

I am at home hoping that dial up service will work to upload some pics of my deer. Yes thats right, I finally got a deer. My buddy and fellow Burke Alumn Adam Cota came up Sunday night to the cabin to do some hunting with me. After working hard Monday morning pushing for a few miles and not seeing anything we took a short breakfast/brunch/lunch break incorporating as many calories as we could. Switching spots we worked the same hillside. I worked right off of Johns Notch which is a place I have skied by a few hundred times while training at Burke. As dusk drew close I was getting real cold but held out that last couple minutes to have a three pointer work in from the side. I took him from about ten feet broadside. Cota heard the shot and came up, I had already tracked it not more than a hundred feet from where I shot. Then the fun began, with it being my first deer and Cota's first solo attempt we got elbow deep and did our best cleaning it out. After a half hour drag (the hardest work I have done in a week) we had some solid light from the cabin and cleaned up the rest. What felt like a solid 125 pound deer was only 93 pounds down at famous Rick's Gun Shop when I brought it in the next day, the smallest on his list so far, but the rack was legal (must be a three pointer with an inch long spike) so I couldn't complain. Dragging it up to my dad's truck this morning my brother noticed that I was probably the only person to ever drag a deer in tights. The baby blue NE ones none the less.

With hunting out of the way and some improving health I managed to get up the mountain twice. The first time I had to stop on the alpine trail and dry heave as I coughed up the better part of my lungs. With just enough snow I managed to do some no pole skiing at the top of the toll road and skied most of the way down. Today I skied most of the toll road up and rallied down on crust. I am feeling better but still cough every few minutes. Anyway I am almost looking forward to getting back to school healthy to make the month long push to race season.