With our two rams down we made camp on a very semi-flat piece of ground and finally crawled into our sleeping bags at 2am after the butchering was done.
Sheep hunting is similar to mountain climbing. Killing a ram is like reaching the summit, but you're really only half-way done. Now we each had 50-70 lbs of meat, a whole sheep hide, head and horns and our camping gear - upwards of 140 lbs each to get to the trucks, approximately 20miles away.
These two pics are day one of hiking out after the second big climb of the day.
Scott was so excited about his ram he wanted to keep it in the tent with him.
Sheep hunting is similar to mountain climbing. Killing a ram is like reaching the summit, but you're really only half-way done. Now we each had 50-70 lbs of meat, a whole sheep hide, head and horns and our camping gear - upwards of 140 lbs each to get to the trucks, approximately 20miles away. 
These two pics are day one of hiking out after the second big climb of the day. 
Scott was so excited about his ram he wanted to keep it in the tent with him.
3 comments:
Scott still totally has day 1 enthusiasm. 140 lbs. Dang. That is awesome/ insane/ awesome. It is not too shabby that you're able to do that. I'm pretty sure that's not physically possible for a non-Alaskan.
It's got to be the pure mountain water only found in Alaska. I hope you and Aaron don't lose your super-powers back east.
Oh contraire. I find that my Alaskanity translates around the globe. It manifests in different ways in different regions mind you, but it manifests nonetheless. Once you've filleted a thousand salmon there's really nothing you can do to get rid of it. :)
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