The thing with the alpine is this, and it was already brought up several pages ago ..... why do we even bother with it? Honestly .... there is a new thread every week it seems, yet i have not seen a pic of a big BC alpine mulie in years. I can't remember the last time a big velvet buck was taken in BC (that was posted publicly, at least). I think the alpine hunt is highly romanticised on the internet with almost all success stories coming from Wyoming and Colorado and with people in the off season thinking how awesome it is to hunt that open country.
There are better and easier places to get bucks in BC. Places closer to home; closer to the truck.
I got into it in 2014 with an "i gotta get away from people" attitude. I had lost a couple of spots in region 8-5 and 3-19 that I would consider fairly close to home that just started getting overrun with people. I spent that winter searching google earth for candidate spots and was quick out of the gate in 2015 to give it a go. I scouted several locations in Regions 2, 3 & 8 and wasted a lot of time just trying to break above the tree line. Never saw an animal. In 2016 I acquired a little more backpacking gear and spent some nights on the mountains and started to figure things out a little more. In 2017 things didn't quite work out with the guy i took up with me. Unfortunately he turned out to be the type to convince you to leave early rather than to push harder and persevere. And unfortunately, the vision of sitting on the edge of my tent, drinking hot tea in the early morning and glassing the alpine bowl below me with my new spotting scope didn't quite turn out the way I had imagined either. I was lucky to spot a couple of deer here or there but none that would warrant a 5hr packout. I have learned a ton. There's no doubt about that.
So why do I still go? ..... Well, where else am I going to be hunting on Sept 1? Nowhere. Nothing else is open on Sept 1 .... except sheep. And maybe I'll try that after I bag my first velvet mulie