This morning on my drive to work, something different caught my eye. I was driving along the five-mile stretch of dirt road between our house and the highway heading into town. Whatever it was, it hadn't been there yesterday. The ground was covered in a three-foot blanket of snow. National Forest bordered the road on the stretch where I was. In the distance, something large and brown was down on the ground in the clean snow. My mind said, "Elk," although I couldn't tell for sure from where ... Read More about A Sad End to a Lonely Trail