Wes Coffey
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Then they stopped.
Silence.
I sat in that stand and I did not move.
I did not breathe loudly.
I did not shift my weight.
My bow was on my lap with an arrow knocked, but I had no intention of shooting at anything.
I wanted to disappear.
The silence lasted maybe two minutes.
Then the footsteps started again.
But they weren't moving south anymore.
They were circling.
The sound moved from my south to my east, crossing the top of the ridge and curving down toward the creek bottom.
I lost the sound for a few seconds when whatever it was moved into the alder.
The ground down there is soft and wet and the leaves are thinner.
Then I picked it up again on my north side.
It was coming back up the ridge moving west.
It crossed behind me.
I could hear it no more than 40 yards away and continued around to my south again.
It was making a circle around my tree, a wide one, maybe a 60-yard radius.
It completed the circle and stopped.