Yukon Territory. We landed in Goz Lake, a couple hours by bush plane Northeast of Mayo Landing. Then, we took horses over goz Pass and dropped into the Snake River.
I was guessing the ridge above Notellum Creek! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />
--Mike
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
Steve, can you enlarge the picture so we can really see what a handsome devil the ol "Dogzapper " is!!!! wouldnt mind a better look at the ram either!!!!!!! 7.21 Tomahawk
Tomahawk,
I really don't know how to post photos like the computer guys do, so I'll do a photo attachment. I'm the guy in the wool jack-shirt and no horns. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Steve
"God Loves Each Of Us As If There Were Only One Of Us" Saint Augustine of Hippo - AD 397
Yukon Territory. We landed in Goz Lake, a couple hours by bush plane Northeast of Mayo Landing. Then, we took horses over goz Pass and dropped into the Snake River.
I was guessing the ridge above Notellum Creek! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />
--Mike
Mike,
I have the original map that we used on the hunt. Not too surprisingly, we found it loaded with errors (places marked glaciers were lakes and vice-versa).
We left Goz Lake and actually went NE over Goz Pass, hitting the Snake River at the point where Reptile Creek empties into the other side of the Snake. Then, we followed the Snake (through swamps and all kind of [bleep]) basically NW for three days.
If you look at your map, our base camp was precisely North of the summit of Mount MacDonald and on the East bank of the Snake River. You'll see a four-forked creek that comes out of the mountains to our West and flows into the Snake....the intersection of the Snake and the unnamed creek was the site.
Interestingly, we didn't see much on our side of the river (naturally). Soooo, we ended up stripping naked and walking across the Snake and carrying our spike camp (in peril, I can assure you). Look exactly NE of our Snake River base camp and you'll see a big long creek drainage We spiked pretty much at the creek's headwaters (very much on the NWT border).
I killed my sheep within a quarter-mile, or less, of the border. Hey, that's where we were finding sheep.
I killed the double-shovel caribou just South of there, where the NWT/Yukon border takes a 90� bend to the NE....kinda the headwaters of the southernmost fork of the big creek.
Gorgeous, wonderful country and I wish I was man enough to do it again.
Our outfitter was a crook and we had few supplies, so Rudy and I ended up living off the land....ptarmigan, red-eyed grouse (whatever they are) and when we killed the caribou, we ate bumgut, netting and and all. Cooked the caribou ribs over the fire and cooked a ham whole under the fire for three days (wrapped in bacon rind and double aluminum foil). Low-bush cranberrys were on, so we ate them til we crapped purple and the farts stained our drawers. Oh man, what a time.
We ate the sheep, too. Finest meat I've ever eaten.
Steve
"God Loves Each Of Us As If There Were Only One Of Us" Saint Augustine of Hippo - AD 397
In response to your choice of calibers, what are you thinking, man? You must hang around guys like Barsness and Haviland to use such puny stuff. I used a man's caliber on my first trip west for pronghorn. Big stuff. .250 Savage. Was told it wouldn't have the reach. The 14" horns on the wall say otherwise. By the way, how's that 6.5/06 AI that you wrote up in Varmint Hunter? I did a 6.5x257AI that's just delightful. Mike
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." Robert E. Howard
In response to your choice of calibers, what are you thinking, man? You must hang around guys like Barsness and Haviland to use such puny stuff. I used a man's caliber on my first trip west for pronghorn. Big stuff. .250 Savage. Was told it wouldn't have the reach. The 14" horns on the wall say otherwise. By the way, how's that 6.5/06 AI that you wrote up in Varmint Hunter? I did a 6.5x257AI that's just delightful. Mike
Hey Mike,
Yup, I hang out with the wrong crowd; Barsness, Haviland and guys like that will lead a fella to ruin. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
The 6.5-'06 Ackley Gordy Gun is still shooting wonderfully. In fact, I love it so much that I had Gordy build me a perfectly matching .22-250 Ackley. Nice pair.
Dogzapper, Thanks for attaching the larger photo of that spectacular ram. Sounds like that crook of an outfitter forced ya'll into having a more memorable and rewarding experience <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> The memories would have been trophy enough, but wow!!!!! ...a super ram to boot!!! [bleep]
Back when my hair was dark and I could still climb the mountains; 1978. This was my first "big" hunt, followed by a lengthy safari in Zimbabwe 1984 and and another in South Africa in 1989. In the 1990s, I started hunting Canada again, Alberta mostly, and did so until the leftist Canadian government started treating me like a criminal at the border in 2002. These days, I'm in my sixties, I limit my adventures to the Western United States.
Anyway, in answer to your question.....back in olden times, 1978. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
The area we hunted was so darned remote that I'm convinced even bigger sheep still live in the Snake River country of the Yukon. And, if not, I'll die convinced that they do. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
leftist Canadian government started treating me like a criminal at the border in 2002
This type of comment always makes me laugh. Especially comming from someone residing in the U.S. Try and find a country with this type of hunting opportunity that is easier to get a hunting firearm into. I'll bet you can't.
Hopefully, I will live long enough and be fortunate enough to check out your hypothesis and try for them Yukon rams <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Unfortunately, I'm sure there have been some changes since the 70s...let's hope for the sake of the sheep that you're right and that populations are still strong, growing and that the forests are as ripe with wilderness wildlife as they were back then.
