OHHHH TAY!... 'tis the season again. Again I'll do a running thread on my goat adventures this year. Last year was a learning experience and a half. Ended up only seeing one goat during new years. He was on a knife ridge and I could have taken him(not sure if he was huge or not). But I knew if he went off the back side I wouldn't have been able to retrieve him.
Anyways. I put my brother, my buddy and myself in for a region 6 goat draw. Me and my buddy got our draws, while my brother got squat.
While working back in April, I was cruising home from work. Bored and gawking at the run off pulling snow off the mountains, I was checking them out trying to figure out how much longer I had to wait until bears would be popping up. I wasn't really paying attention, but then all of a sudden something caught my eye in a gorge(best way to describe it I guess). I whipped around and drove back. I had seen something just a little off white. Up with the binos(they always ride shotgun) and sure enough there was a couple of goats chilling out. How I seen them with the undressed eye is beyond me. They were half way down the mountain just below the snow line.
So from there on home I started watching for them a little closer. I started seeing more and more.
None of this spot the moose BS... lol
So I started mapping out on google earth, where I had been seeing goats each day I was cruising by the area. It came down to 2 management units and those were the two we all applied for.
Same spot, later date... I think I counted 7 in this spot this day.
same spot not through binos
different spot... I counted 8 here. There in the picture... just quite a ways away