snow run

Sunday we went on a Snow Run that was put on by 4 wheel parts. They said it was customer appreciation day so everything was going to be free. We woke up early to get my buddies uncles jeep running and his diesel running to because we were going to pull the jeep with the diesel up into the mountains. so we leave around 630 and we had to meet everybody at the 4 wheel parts store in Fresno. They told us where we were going and they said we would have to meet one more time at a shop just past oakhusrt for some coffee and donuts. then we take off to go to the trails. we knew there was alot of snow up there so we packed heavy with clothes. when we get there everyone gets ready to enter the snow because there was alot of it and you didnt want to slide or get stuck. everyone deflated there tires to get more traction for the snow. i tell you what it really helps too! i remeber there was a line of trucks mostly jeeps and there were waiting for something so we get out and go look, there was a guy in a truck stuck and almost of a little hill and they had 2 trucks pulling him out because he didnt want to ruin his truck by falling into the hill. we got stuck a couple of times threw out the day but we had fun for the most part. we had snowball fights and playing baseball in the snow. it was an overall good day.
Jordan Espino

This past weekend was the jr hunt out at mendota wildlife area. I me my dad and my sisters boyfriend took my brother out hunting for ducks and geese. It was his first time hunting.my brother Tyler only shot a shotguns a few times and he was kinda nervous to shoot again. We get out to the tule patch where we wanted to go because that's where we had sucess at, it was a tough walk onto the pond because the pond was disced so there was low spit and high spots in the pond. I fell into a hole and I almost got water inside my waders but I got lucky, my brother lost his shoes and lucky we found them because it would of been hard to walk in that pond without them. we finnaly get set up and we start blowing our duck calls and here comes the ducks. First came a big ol fat mallard drake and my brother shoots and he misses, I got a lil upset because he he is the only one who gets to shoot. The later the pintail starts coming around and he smacks a nice pintail and about 15 minutes later he gets another pintail, I was like man we created a killer like us. The more ducks come and he gets 3 more ducks in a 30 minute period of time, we were thinking that he only needs 2 more ducks for a limit of 7. 2 spoonies come on and he smacks them both. There's his limit! Bit wait there's geese flying around so we stayed for a bit and he comes the geese. A group of them come in and they are very low and my brother Tyler doubles up on geese, we were very proud of him and he says he want to hunt next season too. It was a very good day.
Jordan Espino