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Do it. Do it while you are physically able.

Not long before I turned 60, my wife asked if there was anything I'd like to do or hunt while still able. She knew that for decades I had forgone most sheep hunting due to family and financial responsibilities.

I thought about it awhile and then drove 1084 miles north, parked by the Alaska Highway and backpacked into the northern Rockies after sheep and caribou. "Loved it" is way too mild a descriptor for the dazzling ten days.

If you want to hunt elk, hunt them now, this Fall!