Little family in the Big Woods

I called it hunting but the reality is I was just taking my gun for a walk in the woods. The whole family went up to the Nicolet National forest. Beautiful pine forests, although we were just inside of the forest boundaries. We had a nice 2 mile hike along easy to walk dirt tote roads and snowmobile trails. Stumbled onto on bow hunter out there and spent a lot of time looking for areas to camp. We hiked off of Daisy Rd, although I don't remember the forest road designation. The weather was perfect for a fall hike, cool and overcast. Merrick was pretty content to just ride in the backpack, rather than walk--the little "lazy bump." I suspect his view is just a lot better when he is up higher and might have a preference because of that. On the way home we even hit a Taco John's as we listened to the Packer game on the radio--pretty good way to spend a Sunday afternoon. I have since ordered a large map of the area from the forest service and with the drive up there being easy and realtively quick we plan on spending more time up there. sophia said her legs were tired, but finding a couple of turkey feathers and some deer bones seemed to help