In northern Idaho there is a small lake about 20 miles into the forest via logging roads.  Situated on the edge of a protected wilderness area, the camp sites there seemed rarely used.  It's about as wild a place as a person can bring a camper.   The first time I camped there I was awakened at sunrise by the sound of heavy footsteps outside my tent.  When I looked out I saw that the entire lake are was crawling with moose.  Some of them were only a few feet away from where I was laying my head.  There were at least 20 that I could see in the dawn light.  They were drinking, eating and swimming.  A few months later I came back with a friend who I had told about the morning moose congregation.  I was hoping that they come again, and they did.  It seems they come every morning, seemingly oblivious to the human campers in the area.  Apparently they have been coming to this lake for years, as I have seen a fairly well known photograph of a bull moose in this lake taken by the famous early 20th century photographer K. D. Swan

April 6,  2001

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"Hoodoo Lake"

"One of the Many Moose that come to drink at Hoodoo Lake Early in the morning.  By noon they are all gone"