Page 10 - Black Range Naturalist - Oct 2021

“My horse had a habit of jumping down from rock to rock, which, when his back was at an angle of about forty-five degrees, made it very difficult to hold on, especially with a tripod banging across one’s knees.” (p. 24)
“This ridge was quite spectacular, so we stopped and took motion pictures of climbing and going through the brush and so forth. Bill seemed to take an endless time with his picture taking and camera loading. He couldn’t decide what picture he wanted.” (p. 25)
“We packed one mule with the cameras, tripods, and a lot of extra film; also, water, coffee, and bread; and then we started up Stray Horse Creek” (p.27) to spend the night under the tree with the dogs keeping a Mountain Lion in a tree above the campers. They arrived just before dark and “We set up our Eyemo cameras with six-inch lenses and took some pictures of the lion in the tree from about a hundred feet away on the steep mountain side. This made only a fair picture, and we hoped and prayed that the lion would stay until morning, when we might be able to persuade him to
change his position.” (p. 27)
“We had done all we could with the lion in his present position, and as we wanted more pictures, it was necessary to get him to change. A shower of small stones seemed to be all that was necessary...he came down head first...My camera was mounted on a tripod on the steep slope, where with the 6-inch lens I could get a good picture of his actions. Bill was well placed at an opening in the
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