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Charlene and I left the boys at the fifth Cottonwood lake and headed off and up to the sixth Cottonwood lake (approx 12,000 feet). After about an hour of boulder hopping and hiking we made it to the lake. The view was breath taking as seen in my image, Above the Timberline. On our way back down I mentioned to Charlene how cool it would be to see Bighorn Sheep. We had seen them a month earlier in Yellowstone, but have never seen them in California. As we continued down I spotted what I thought were deer in the rocks ahead of us. Charlen began counting and by the time she got to 9 I knew that we were not looking at deer. Low and behold it was a group of Bighorn sheep, ewes and lambs. We could not believe our good fortune. This is the first of three images I will share with you. Image was taken with a Nikon D2X body and a 100-300zoom lens. `