As Elaine and I were looking at the weather outside and noticing how warm it was getting, I noticed something outside and as I turned to look I saw a Marten coming back from the snow cave on the side of the house. I tried to get a picture but he saw me and was gone. I went and looked to find him again but only found tracks several of them coming from the creek out from the front pond. It was nice to see him but at the same time means we have to be on guard for our little buddy Peppy, he might not be much competition for a young hungry Marten. Not something I expected to see especially in the morning, last year a biologist for the forest service had set out traps to see if we had any Martens out here in the forest and set out 6 at Trinity and only had one trap with Marten tracks on it so this is really cool. Will just have to keep our eyes open as this is the first time this winter to see him or his tracks and yet today I found 5-6 different places that he has been since Thursday when I was dragging and it was snowing and I never saw any tracks except for a big Buck that always stays here with us.
This next week could be very interesting as the snow level is up to 6000-8000' and temps are supposed to get up in the 40's all week could start to make things here very sloppy and is that the beginning of the end of winter or will we get another big winter blast at the end of the month. Overall this year we've had more snow than last year but only have about 10' showing on the gauge because of the warming and compaction that has been happening all winter. Last year we had 14' on the gauge it just was more spread out when it came and this year came in big dumps. Never a dull moment.
We found our Paradise, hope you find yours too.
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