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She made the initial portion of her journey with her mom, just like most yearling deer for millennia. They left an area near Bear River in the southwest part of Wyoming in mid-April 2018 and arrived on the mother’s summer range northeast of Cokeville a month later.

But then deer F210, as she’s been numbered, went on what can only be described as a walkabout.

She began at her summer range near Cokeville, skirted around Electric Peak, up and over the south end of the Salt Range, through the foothills of the east side of the Wyoming Range, popping into sagebrush country before finishing in the Hoback area, wandering through some of the toughest terrain Wyoming has to offer.

The 58-mile journey took her 10 days.

When she reached a spot about 17 miles south of Bondurant, on a Monday morning, she turned around and walked her exact route back through sagebrush country, along the foothills of the Wyoming Range, up and over the Salt Range, around Electric Peak to her mother’s summer range near Cokeville. In total, she climbed and lost more than 23,000 feet in elevation.

F210 then followed her mother’s route another 61 miles back to the Bear River area.