Although the only part of the ram that could be seen was the horns, as they were silhouetted in the afternoon sun, it was enough to induce a grueling climb up the steep shale bowl that lay above us. The beginning wasn’t too bad, but a small group of curious ewes made it a stop [...]

The water was a deep turquoise color and glassy calm, as we touched down in the super cub on floats, and then idled into the shallows. Josh and I hopped off of the float into the water, and I was surprised to feel it was warm. We unlashed our kayaks from the plane and headed [...]

It was opening morning of fall brown bear season on the Alaska Peninsula, and already we had seen more bears than most people will see in their life time. Nine o clock in the morning found us at the edge of a clearing, where several bears had been traveling, and we hoped that this day [...]

Although barely audible above our pounding hearts, we could hear the ram munching grass as it went from 30 yards to 20. It was only hours before the season would open, when this duo of rams, one nice full curl and a sickle horn, walked up on us. Frozen in the standing position, the big [...]

The end of the hunting season had come, and my departure to the lower 48 was drawing nigh, but my thirst for adventure was not quite quenched, so one more outing proved necessary. The trip plan was to boat across the lake, hike up a mountain, have Stacie shoot a ram, and then either I [...]

When I arrived at the moose camp it was just as Preston had described it, a nice tent location just below the hill, and a good place to land, with only a short distance to walk for a sweeping view of the country for miles. This was the location of Preston’s hunt with Ulrich in [...]

The weather was not so favorable, as I stood upon the top most point of Bacharach Castle/Youth Hostel, but rain and fog could not dampen my spirits, or the view of the Rhine River that spread out below me for endless miles of vineyards, castles and boats. It was February 2006, and I was on [...]