I once sat on a small mountain side in the Senoran Desert with my sister on a deer hunt in the desert.  I had cactus behind me, rocks under my butt and as the fridgid morning opened up into a blazingly sunny day, I began to feel cross-eyed from glassing the valley below and the hill beyond. I lowered the binoculars to wipe the sweat from my face and realized I had a tarantula only 4 inches from my left knee and moving in!  Suffice it to say, we were not successful in our hunt. After 4 hours of freezing, boiling, itching and getting past the ache of pointy rocks under my rear, I jumped up. Not that I was afraid of the huge spider, but had it crawled in my lap, I would have become more than twitchy anyway.

Enough sudden movement to let any self-repecting deer know where we were.  But we had a great time finding a valley empty of deer, and two days and a new location later, we finally got our prize. :-)

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