George Welles craned his neck to look at the figures in the tree canopy above. “This is the definition of a bad day,” he said, pointing out the climber that was carefully lowering a dangling dummy ...

“A climbing rope was a new one ... Local climbers tied their own ropes to the elk, ran the rigging over a tree, and created a hauling system. Then Hake and six others pulled on the rope ...

“A climbing rope was a new one ... Local climbers tied their own ropes to the elk, ran the rigging over a tree, and created a hauling system. Then Hake and six others pulled on the rope ...