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[HighPlainsMedic]

While on our trip up Old Fall River Road, around a switch back, we noticed a general difference in the snow, hard to describe at first but then we looked closer and saw hair and a collection of flotsum. Something was sticking out of the snow and when we looked closer it was an antler. We dug around the antler and realized it was a young bull moose. One can speculate but until the entire carcass is exposed there is no way to tell.. There was a solid ice layer over the carcass under the snow. And it stunk pretty good. Maybe the carcass had been exposed refroze and re exposed and now is under a layer of deeper snow... Either way young guy didn't make it.. Sad in a way, but other critters are getting sustanance.

[Igloo Ed]

Cool find. I love it when I come across things that cause some thinking.

[rcw]

The circle of life.

[Scrapinator]

Cool shot, but sad as well. Survival of the fittest, though.