Make sure you have a good headlamp. Many times you set up the stalk before it gets light or are packing sheep after civil twilight.

Talk to your taxidermist. You might have an assistant guide who can do the job right but you might have a college cannery slimeline worker. You need to make sure that you have the salt and the tools to take care of your trophy right.

Shop for a different sleeping bag. You can get one of those Kelty Dridown bags for around $200. They are light and you will be thankful for it.

Take a pair of really light camp shoes or crocs for streamcrossings and for drying your feet at night.

You're the client. Take whatever rifle you shoot best with.
Make sure you can test it before you hunt in earnest.
Get electrical tape for muzzle. I wind it around the barrel as well. Also if you take a wooden stock shoot the whole thing with a bottle of campdry silicone spray on the stock and then use cloth shotgun tape to protect it. It protects even synthetic stock guns by kind of cushioning it from dings.

Bring a small pill container with emergency medicine. Including vicodin. You can never tell when you need it.

Bring gaiters for your boots. They lessen damage to your books and allow your feet to stay drier.

Take a small space blanket in case you have to bivyout or wait out over your sheep. A good pack cover is also good.

A small high lumen flashlight is also good. They don't weigh much but they have been used to drive a curious bear away at night.

Make a journal and look to optimize the amount of time in the field. Sometimes you might have to make your luck. This means you have to sometimes walk to the next drainage or call the outfitter and request a change. Be firm but you are paying for the experience. Go for it.

Make sure you have topos that have been weatherproofed of the entire area that you expect to hunt. It will help.

Take a sawyer waterfilter. They are very light. Giardia is a real concern even in the mountains.

Bring some Mio energy drops to flavor the water. It will be worth it.

Best luck,
Thomas

Last edited by kaboku68; 05/24/13.