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Alright! Well done, man! And well earned.

Congrats, and per always - thanks for sharing.

Man, what a trip. Excellent!!

Good stuff, congrats.

Thanks for sharing man, awesome. Bad ass!

Great story! Love that feeling when you finally wrap your mitts around those horns!

Congrats, great write up! Thank you for sharing

Awesome hunt all the way around. Thanks for your great writeup and photos.

Super write up and photos. Congrats on getting your sheep. Thanks for taking us along!

Well earned! Thanks for the writeup.

Heck ya man!

Thanks for sharing....

Great composure on the hunt & the read, congratulations on the sheep.

Really enjoyed being able to come along on your hunting adventure - thank you! And congrats on a terrific trophy - just a beauty of a ram well done!

Great write up. Much appreciate the time and effort you put into it.

That was an amazing hunt and very well chronicled. You are one in a thousand able to outfit and stalk yourself into a high tough country sheep hunt. My late Brother was a Wyoming guide who was always sorry he didn’t have more sheep clients. Even then only a few were honestly up to it physically and most not really able to climb like you. Several that could got scared at some of the narrow tricky approaches to good elevation. Sheep and goat hunters are special athletes but more than legs and lungs they need be able to overlook the risks to get close enough to the game for a reasonable shot and still be able to accurately shoot and often steep down angles.

Using pack goats is a very smart move and something I’d never heard of. Above timberline on loose shale and rock slides my Brother depended on two of his favorite mules but he always said they were noisy and usually had to be staked or hobbled well below. Those goats of your’s I’m guessing hold that rocky ground much better and furthermore probably looked like relatives to the sheep. Sheep have some of the best vision of all so again using pack goats is a very smart clever plan.

To sum it up you’ve treated us to a one of a kind rough country high elevation hunt for sheep that you planned and executed by you and your wife with NO guide. Self guided sheep and goat hunts are almost unheard of unless you’re local and know what to expect and then it’s risky. What you have here is the makings of a good hunting story suitable for print in the better publications. I can only add total my admiration

Rick

Congrats, hard earned trophy!

Very well done.
Both the doing and the telling, I think...

Fantastic, well earned, congratulations! Thanks for sharing the adventure!

Congrats & Thanks for the ride along!

Very cool Mark, thanks for taking us along with you.

Thanks all. I enjoy trying to get the story of the adventure aspect of these hunts down on paper.
And Woodpecker, thanks for kind words. It really is more meaningful to me to do this myself than to pay for a guide. While a guide might be a better use of my time, I’ve got the equipment and ability to do things like this without their help. This is about the hunt for me, and someone else doing the hunting and prep work might take some of that away from me. This is essentially a once in a lifetime hunt and I wanted to do it from beginning to end.

Getting this done solo was hard, but more rewarding that way.