Dukats Journal of Hunting

That aside, you can still find reasonable hunting trips that will test your sheep hunting endurance to the maximum.  We found just such a hunt and four of us loaded up the truck with enough gear for a month (for a three day hunt) and headed for the mountains.  After nine hours of driving, and with the sun receding, we pulled over a hill into a canyon to find jagged rocky peaks jutting out of the bottom of the canyon.  It was truly intimidating to see the mountains we would be hunting as they looked uninhabitable and too steep to climb.  This was the sheep hunt I was looking to find.

We met briefly with the landowner and he got us set up in camp and gave us a few options of where to start our hunt.  We set up the tents in the dark, and enjoyed the starlight in anticipation of the following day.  Morning couldn't come soon enough and at six we were packing gear and getting ready.  Unfortunately, light didn't come until around 7:45 and since we arrived in camp after dark, we wanted to have a look around before the hiking began.

Two of us grabbed our packs and rifles and started the climb out of camp, up a large mountain one canyon from the sheep.  They were feeding their way up the mountain, and if we made it in time, would offer us a shot before they fed over the hill. Unfortunately, we were too late.  When we reached the top of the mountain, they were gone and our hiking  continued to the top of the next peak.  Again, no sheep.  As we moved down the face of the mountain range, Scott spotted a sheep moving over a saddle.  We had a good idea where they dropped over the mountain and we snuck to the edge to have a look.