Jaydog goes hunting - mountain goats (Round 1 with pics, and Round 2 mess pics)
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Damn your sharp eyes! I swear she forced me to use them.
I should fess up more completely to my sissyness and admit that the river was crossed in a raft and not swam too. I was even made to wear a pfd and smile for this photo.
Digi-goat managed to keep those horns by laying down on the far side of a sheer cliff so I couldn't recover him after shooting. My hunting plans this fall include inviting him home for Halloween dinner though!
Wow spectacular view in some of those pics!
Otokiak
RAnkin Inlet, NU
CANADA
Ha! For a second you had me thinking there was some cleavage in those photos.
Few more.
Alpine meadow:
Mile 8 on the hike in:
Me glassing a nanny:
20 plus miles and 5200 feet later, I've still got enough jam to throw the raft bag ontop of my pack and head off with my rifle to the truck:
The humour here is that jaydog is the one guy out there that would/could swim that river. I just assumed he had floated the pack in a dry bag and shook off like a lab on the far side. LOL. Guess it was a bow to his love of his wife to bother packing the raft.
careful 8x2 =16 on trashed fsr, that only leaves you 4 struggling through shintangle your gonna make folks think this goat hunting is easy. (i jest with respect of course)
The funny part is all of us guys living down south see your pictures and think the same thing.
With slightly over 7 miles of landslide debris field to hike, the shintangle is a *minor* inconvenience. I didn't post the picture of my sweety and the first aid kit after taking a header wearing a full pack hiking in that crap. Her days as a knee model may be over.
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Start here:
Top secret goat location.
Actually its a LEH hunt so there are only four other guys in BC worth keeping secrets from. I'm sure people will figure it out within the first couple pics.....
OK, out the door! One minor stop for salt for the hide and then I can sleep while the missus drives. Dang she's handy!
Bwhahaha I'm the late laugher, but well played on the location.
Round 2
So after leaving the caribou and sheep in the north alive to see another day, the missus and I tried to take advantage of a bluebird weather window and bag my LEH goat.
Not having planned for this particular hunt I didn't have our cruise ship of an inflatable raft and every CanadianTire we went by was sold out. At the last minute we went with the only option available and grabbed a child sized play raft and decided to make the best of it. Getting to the river we saw how the hot days were melting the glaciers and the river was considerably higher and faster that the lazy river it was before. After gearing up we did a risk assessment (we both have whitewater experience and training) and decided to make the first try with just us and the rifle, then I would make shuttle runs in the tiny dingy alone if things went ok......
Note to self: if you think something is a bad idea, trust your gut and don't feel forced to continue.
Note to others: I occasionally make poor decisions and you may not want to follow me blindly.
We plan the crossing, wife loads, I load, the current starts pulling us downstream quickly and almost immediately we start taking on water. Did I mention this was a childs dingy? I bark orders, we draw/paddle for shore but can't acutally land now because its a crumbly gravel/cobble bank that is eroded and start to tumble downstream. At this point we both end up in the water and I grab the bank over my head with my right arm feeling the shoulder dislocate. Fortunately this slowed us down enough to dig our feet in for a second and wriggle up on the bank. A quick reassessment shows we are both fine aside from my shoulder and my much beloved Tikka was saved by my sweety! All things considered, this is a success in my books and we immediately move on to getting back to the truck, dried off and trying to reset my shoulder. Since this was the first dislocation ever it was tighter than hell and she couldn't fix things even with her foot in my armpit. 
Almost two hours on a (freaken painful) gravel road later a very kind doctor popped the sucker back in and it was all good.....
Now for the hunting part: I'm out for a bit obviously and start what I'm told will be 3 months of physio at the end of this week. Anybody with experience on how quickly I can return to shooting? Carrying heavy loads in a pack? Crossing rivers when I know I shouldn't? I have until November 25th to fill this tag and am motivated (in case you couldn't tell ).
So after leaving the caribou and sheep in the north alive to see another day, the missus and I tried to take advantage of a bluebird weather window and bag my LEH goat.
Not having planned for this particular hunt I didn't have our cruise ship of an inflatable raft and every CanadianTire we went by was sold out. At the last minute we went with the only option available and grabbed a child sized play raft and decided to make the best of it. Getting to the river we saw how the hot days were melting the glaciers and the river was considerably higher and faster that the lazy river it was before. After gearing up we did a risk assessment (we both have whitewater experience and training) and decided to make the first try with just us and the rifle, then I would make shuttle runs in the tiny dingy alone if things went ok......
Note to self: if you think something is a bad idea, trust your gut and don't feel forced to continue.
Note to others: I occasionally make poor decisions and you may not want to follow me blindly.
We plan the crossing, wife loads, I load, the current starts pulling us downstream quickly and almost immediately we start taking on water.
Did I mention this was a childs dingy? I bark orders, we draw/paddle for shore but can't acutally land now because its a crumbly gravel/cobble bank that is eroded and start to tumble downstream. At this point we both end up in the water and I grab the bank over my head with my right arm feeling the shoulder dislocate. Fortunately this slowed us down enough to dig our feet in for a second and wriggle up on the bank. A quick reassessment shows we are both fine aside from my shoulder and my much beloved Tikka was saved by my sweety! All things considered, this is a success in my books and we immediately move on to getting back to the truck, dried off and trying to reset my shoulder. Since this was the first dislocation ever it was tighter than hell and she couldn't fix things even with her foot in my armpit. Almost two hours on a (freaken painful) gravel road later a very kind doctor popped the sucker back in and it was all good..... Now for the hunting part: I'm out for a bit obviously and start what I'm told will be 3 months of physio at the end of this week. Anybody with experience on how quickly I can return to shooting? Carrying heavy loads in a pack? Crossing rivers when I know I shouldn't?
I have until November 25th to fill this tag and am motivated (in case you couldn't tell ).
How long could I survive? Quite a long time unless I drowned (possible Round 2), got hyperthermia (possible Round 2) or fell off a steep face and broke my neck (possible Round 1).
Seriously though, we both have years of backcountry experience backed up by wilderness first aid, swif####er safety and other courses. This trip has obvious danger elements to it, but is far from outside the norm for a lot of guys I know. We had planned for 5 days and brought 6 days food and fuel and after 20 plus years of hunting and fieldwork in remote areas I saw this as a relaxing trip to get away and hunt.You are never too old to learn. I grew up in the north of ON and had to learn my way in the mountains later in life. While I'm far from an expert yet, I still make my way and have a good time doing it.
