Broomd
WKR
Love the hunting stories here at the 'slide and thought I'd share mine for this year. The Mountain Goat forum has been a bit quiet lately as well....
Like many here, I put in for an Alaskan draw tag this year, Kodiak dg473--Terror Lake. The odds ended up very long at 5%, but when I saw the good news that I had drawn I was ecstatic. My last goat hunt was in 2011, across Wild Creek from Terror Lake. That was a successful and fun hunt, but I swore I'd try the other adjacent unit to avoid the long slog from the salt into the goat clouds.
I'll be 52 in Nov., so fitness has been more of a focus than ever, and I worked hard all Summer to be ready to hit the rock for a quality billy and hunt overall.
After some intel from other successful tag holders (hat tip to RyanC and others) I planned for an early Sept hunt--decent temps and weather, and better hair than Aug--I booked with Roland at Seahawk...as good and knowledgeable as they come.
My son remained in Ak when we moved to the lower 48 some time ago, so he would serve as 2nd degree kindred for me. Wife also joined this hunt: she is as tough as they come and keeps an immaculate camp.
After some weather delays, we were finally able to board with Roland and got flown out.
Some gorgeous country..
We arrived on our lake late Friday afternoon Sept 4th just in time to set up a great camp. Hat tip to Brad (colonel00) for the use of his excellent homemade bear fence...appreciated my friend! Thankfully, we saw NO BEARS on this trip, but it was invaluable peace of mind!
Saturday we awoke to bluebird skies with no rain...it was go-time. We loaded up some spike camp equipment--about three days worth--and headed out to a bowl about 2.5 miles away, this bowl was socked in the clouds when we had flown in with Roland, but he assured us that the billies used the area.
We quickly realized that the deer in the area were thick, does and fawns were everywhere in the lowland, and as we started gaining altitude the bucks started appearing. The island has an excellent deer hear right now!
My son, Jon had some deer tags and was holding out for a nice buck, and he had also decided to wait on the deer hunt until we had given the billy hunt our best effort. This proved to be a very difficult thing, as we saw many very fine bucks on the way to our goat country.
As we traveled on I found this excellent complete Kodiak bear skull...
Deer were numerous...
Our destination...
Took a speed-grass slide 'ala Becca Moffet--skookum goat huntress here at the 'slide....lucked out when I jammed--and snapped--a Leki pole and grabbed a handful of grass....one scary slide down. The two hours saved were worth it, but not by much!
Like many here, I put in for an Alaskan draw tag this year, Kodiak dg473--Terror Lake. The odds ended up very long at 5%, but when I saw the good news that I had drawn I was ecstatic. My last goat hunt was in 2011, across Wild Creek from Terror Lake. That was a successful and fun hunt, but I swore I'd try the other adjacent unit to avoid the long slog from the salt into the goat clouds.
I'll be 52 in Nov., so fitness has been more of a focus than ever, and I worked hard all Summer to be ready to hit the rock for a quality billy and hunt overall.
After some intel from other successful tag holders (hat tip to RyanC and others) I planned for an early Sept hunt--decent temps and weather, and better hair than Aug--I booked with Roland at Seahawk...as good and knowledgeable as they come.
My son remained in Ak when we moved to the lower 48 some time ago, so he would serve as 2nd degree kindred for me. Wife also joined this hunt: she is as tough as they come and keeps an immaculate camp.
After some weather delays, we were finally able to board with Roland and got flown out.
Some gorgeous country..
We arrived on our lake late Friday afternoon Sept 4th just in time to set up a great camp. Hat tip to Brad (colonel00) for the use of his excellent homemade bear fence...appreciated my friend! Thankfully, we saw NO BEARS on this trip, but it was invaluable peace of mind!
Saturday we awoke to bluebird skies with no rain...it was go-time. We loaded up some spike camp equipment--about three days worth--and headed out to a bowl about 2.5 miles away, this bowl was socked in the clouds when we had flown in with Roland, but he assured us that the billies used the area.
We quickly realized that the deer in the area were thick, does and fawns were everywhere in the lowland, and as we started gaining altitude the bucks started appearing. The island has an excellent deer hear right now!
My son, Jon had some deer tags and was holding out for a nice buck, and he had also decided to wait on the deer hunt until we had given the billy hunt our best effort. This proved to be a very difficult thing, as we saw many very fine bucks on the way to our goat country.
As we traveled on I found this excellent complete Kodiak bear skull...
Deer were numerous...
Our destination...
Took a speed-grass slide 'ala Becca Moffet--skookum goat huntress here at the 'slide....lucked out when I jammed--and snapped--a Leki pole and grabbed a handful of grass....one scary slide down. The two hours saved were worth it, but not by much!
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