Lehman Creek defines the back edge of our site. The creek runs a bit fuller every day as the mountain top snow pack continues to melt.  Chickadees noisily snack on the early buds of the thick birch stand.  Robins and Cedar Waxwings compete for the best high perches in the pines.  A deer, still wearing much of its scruffy winter coat, makes a quick try for some of the tender new grass in camp.  A snake about a foot long made it half way across the road….not one of the rare Great Basin Rattlesnakes still sorry to see he didn’t make it.  We hear the turkeys every day and have fun trying to spot them in the dense vegetation.

Wheeler Peak is still snowed in so we won’t get the chance to check out the ancient Bristle Cone Pines that grow up there.  That is for another trip.