Sunday, August 23, 2009

The Return to Ram Nation #1

Scott and I are back from another glorious trip to the Brooks Range and the valley of rams we dubbed Ram Nation. Last year we were fortunate to take two rams, mine being my biggest ever. But there was another giant ram that eluded us and we just had to go back in the hopes that he had survived the winter, wolves and other hunters.
Here we are at the trailhead ready to start the long hike. As you can see, Scott displays his exuberance a little more outwardly than me.
Wildfires in the interior had us very concerned about visibility. It's hard to hunt sheep if you can't see. Yes, that is a photo of the mountains we were heading into.
We had pretty good going the first several miles as this creek provided good walking.
It was hot the first day hiking in which brought out the pirate twins. Aarrrr

2 comments:

Sally said...

I would like it to be noted that you and scott are in the exact same, but opposite pose in the first and last photo. I was about to comment about you maybe mixing up the poses when I realized it was Scott.

Snaps to Scott for the obvious enthusiasm in the first photo, while you exude more calm, like someone you would want around in a crisis. But then Scott mirrored that in the last photo and you're just sitting on a rock. What does this say about you Steve?

It's quite the pictorial conundrum.

Fullcurl said...

Steve...man of mystery.