Stone Sheep Hunt Day 9 Tues. Aug 5th

 Up at 7:30 to a Beautiful Clear Sunny day.  Ate Porridge and made lunch.  Started up hill.  Just as we reached the top Bryan spotted a huge dark Ram on the ridge looking at us.  It was gone before we crested the ridge.  Saw 5 Rams at top of basin and one looked real good, but they got our wind and spooked.  They circled way around us, headed down into the valley and then up onto the white limestone ridge west of us.   Off we went the 2 1/2 km west.  Vikki scoped while Bryan went to the top of that mountain.  Vikki watched 4 hunters along way away to the east.  Lots of orange and yellow lichen and small flowers everywhere.  
Bryan's story when he got back to Vikki...
I headed off to follow where all the Stone Sheep seemed to disappear.  Our side was a talace slope with rocky benches.  The other side was a bowl like Box Canyon covering about 50 acres and 300 feet deep .... a real boulder field with moss growing in between them... quite slippery, dangerous and steep. with a hundred places for sheep to hide.  Trails everywhere, caves half way up the cliffs.  Boulders as big as large cabins with shelves .... an impressive sheep hide away.  Sitting way up high looking down I could see so many places where Stone Sheep would be resting...  There was water dripping everywhere.... green grass down in the bottom.  It was very dangerous going and I kept on reminding myself that I'd left Vikki back there sitting.... way out in the middle of nowhere. 

 Vikki is heading back with Hannah watching Bryan take the photo.

Headed back to "Alpine Camp at 5... really windy going.  Bryan made campfire Biscuits and we had spaghetti and sausages.