Some of the huge racks that we found along the top of the Ridge had been gathered into piles, probably by horn poachers that planned to remove them later. This was a matching set, unusual in that antlers are often dropped one at a time.
The gaiters come in handy, even in dry weather, for keeping rocks and weed seeds out of hiking boots when walking the steep slopes.

Bottom: Paul checks out the top of what I call Stump Bluff, a loose conglomerate of volcanic ash, boulders, and petrified wood. Some of the petrified stumps are pretty large and still stand, millions of years after being smothered in ash from the eruptions of Yellowstone volcanoes.