Finally on day four we topped a ridge in the evening and discovered Ram Nation. We counted 23 rams in this hidden bowl. About half of them appeared to be legal full-curls and a couple of them were real bruisers. But there was a reason the rams loved this valley so much. They were virtually unapproachable. Two failed stalks got us no closer than 700 yards. We needed to employ some extreme tactics to get on these rams. We pulled back to base camp and decided a night stalk was our only chance to sneak within range. This stalk required a long hike up a knife edged ridge. At the top we huddled in our sleeping bags for about 3 hours waiting until darkness. At 1 am we entered the valley through a notch in the ridge we dubbed the sheep gate and descended 1000 feet down a steep rock chute to the valley floor in the near darkness.
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