JACKSON, Wyo. — The first day of May dawned frosty, partly cloudy and, Brady Rivenes hoped, a good omen for the snags. a “very large pile” of elk antlers in the snowy national forest 20 minutes from where he sat in a black pickup truck.
His truck was No. 23 out of 367 vehicles registered to start lining up in the morning. previously, at the Teton County Fairgrounds, the starting point for what could be the hottest event in a booming world. pastime in the American West: Jackson’s annual “shed hunt,” an intense and sometimes dogged search for the antlers that bull elk grow each year, deploy in fall battles to find mates, then fall off each spring.
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