This was my third time at stone sheep hunting. First two attempts were amazing adventures but came home with uncut tags.
Aug 14 came and I picked up friends from the airport and began the drive north. Stayed in a hotel that night and next morning we drove to our destination. We began our hike to base camp at 10:30am and 6.5 hrs later we were setting up our tents. Next morning we packed enough food for 4 days and put our bivy sacks in our packs. Then next couple days we seen close to 35 sheep, couple goats and a wolverine but no legal rams. Day three we still had 2 bowls to check out and at 2:30pm we had a ram spotted. Crept to within 600 yards to determine it was a legal ram by both curl and age. At 7:00pm shots were fired and my first stone sheep was on the ground. There is no other feeling to hold your first stone sheep, I dreamed for that moment for a long time. Got back to where we were going to sleep that night at 10:00am. Next morning we hiked back to base camp, had some tenderloin and then began the hike back to the truck. We decided to camp half way back to truck to rest our bodies and then got to the truck the next morning. We fleshed the sheep hide and salted it then slept in our tents at the truck. We had a man pamper day the next day and drove to liard hot springs. Aug 22 we began a new adventure in a different area for caribou. First couple days had cow calf sightings. The following evening we had a legal bull sighted, shots rang out and we had a caribou down. After a couple hrs of quartering we began the hike back in the complete darkness of the night. Next morning we began the 11 km hike back to the truck. All the pain suffered is now all worth it and memories were made for a lifetime. Caribou pics on buddies camera, will post later since I jus got home Friday morning.
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