you don't need fish to have a good time

now armed with an ice auger, tom and i decided it was time to do 2 things.
1) use the ice auger
2) use the 4wd lo range on the 4runner

to accomplish these 2 things, we headed up to james lake via bata rd. we had 1st tracks all the way up.

the road crosses the high rim trail and a creek simultaneously. here. see?


once we got up to the lake, we did a little exploring around and found this and many other large tractors.

tom whipping up some hot dogs with bbq sauce.

and yes, we did use the auger. the 2 small black dots on the ice behind tom are our holes.

no we did not catch anything. maybe it was the fact that we only checked to hooks twice in 5 hours. maybe its that we don't know how to fish, and maybe its that we just don't really care. you don't need fish to have a good time.