Adventure Description

This preferred outfitter offers just a limited number of Stone Sheep hunts a year. They have excellent genetics (big dark rams) and a stable population of Stone Sheep, in a relatively small area, and they know where the sheep are. The ‘support crew’ on these Stone Sheep hunts includes an experienced guide, a second ‘guide’ who is there to help with the scouting during your hunt, and a string of reliable mountain horses, who will help you (and your camp) get as close to the Stone Sheep but it is not an easy hunt – the mature rams are hard to find, and this outfitter require hunters who are, in sheep shape – able to put in the vertical feet, miles of hiking, and hours of glassing that it takes to get the job done. This outfitter’s Stone Sheep hunters typically fly into one of the outfitter’s mountain camps, where they are met by their guide with their ‘crew’ and the horses. In August, this outfitter and their family are usually in camp … it’s very much a family operation… so there will likely be kids running around and causing trouble. Once in camp, you and the outfitting team will pack up the horses & trail to where the outfitter and guides think the big rams are. They use the horses as much as is practical, and leave them behind when necessary. Sometimes you will do a lot of riding, sometimes more hiking, and sometimes you will backpack to get and stay up in country that isn’t very horse friendly… but most of the time you are not camped too far from the horses. It is not a hunt where you would need to backpack 2-3 days just to get to sheep country… a combination of float planes and horses will take most of that ‘grunt work’ out of the hunt.