| Date: May 18, 2001 | | Location Metolius River Backpack - Day 2 | | Where: Deschutes National Forest | I expected to get a later start, but Ken is up with a fire going by 6:00, so we all get up and eat. Peggy is the slowest, but still we are out of camp an hour earlier than I had planned.
It's an excellent hike down the river and we arrive at Wizard Falls Hatchery much earlier than I had planned. After visiting and looking around for half an hour we decide on first lunch. Jim Harvey tried to bait an Eagle with a dead Brookie, but no luck today. We pull out and break again at a nice bend just beyond The Nature Conservancy property.
|  | | Ken making friends at the Hatchery At the big bend, right across from Allen Springs Campground I see a small bird ht the dirt and then fly with its victim to a tree. We think it to be a Saw-whet, a small owl. (At home I identify it as a Northern Pigmy Owl.)
We hike on down past Bridge 99 and end up camping at the same campsite as last year, across the river and down below Candle Creek Campground.
|  | | Campsite |  | | Butterflies are attracted to Lon's boots |
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