Get in the best shape you can, I find the best way is to actually hike the mountains rather than simulating on a treadmill or the like, not possible...
In the EK mu I hunt goats in, never hard to find them in Oct. Finding them is probably the easiest part of it all. Getting to them in another matter...
Yawn….. when they located the mt caribou to the purcell range the EK was crawling with cougars and wolves where on a steep rise. It was nothing to go...