This was the first year in 5 years that I have not chased snowCOCK. The TinCOCK is sad.....
That top pic was about 1,000 vertical feet above Thompson Pass, Alaska. I was after white-tailed ptarmigan. The second pic was after a hundred year snowstorm in Fairbanks. I was just trying to get to spruce grouse on the edge of town that day...