59 years young. Married to my best friend for 34 years who keeps me fit w/ exercise and healthy eating. Live/Work in SE USA, but together we hike/play/flyfish/raft Rockies & Intermountain We... Read more#flyfishingÂ
Day 3 on backpack hunt; first 3 days unsuccessful so changed location and tactics and made "Phase Two" a hard-core backpack hunt, so overall Day #6 of hunting. Somewhere near Wapshilla Ridge Unit 11 Idaho.
September 2016. 26 degrees F at headwaters of Whitestone Rvr in eastern part of Ogilvie Mtns. Old bull past his prime, would have scored better prior two years. I'm very happy to have taken such an old warrior at 13.5 years old. I was able to take a 10 year-old Fannin's Ram the next day-very active 48 hours!
Diddywahdiddy*Charles Sheldon was accompanied by Carl Rungius, famed naturalist and painter. His works hang in the NY Museum of Natural History, The Met in NYC, and The National Gallery of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole. Inside cover here, and illustrations throughout Sheldon's account of their six-month journey north into the uncharted Yukon.
Diddywahdiddy*Sept 10, 2016 Ogilvie Mtns, YT (L) Spencer Wallace, (R) Dan Reynolds. Great friends and what a pair-awesome guide and primo outfitter/pilot!
10 year-old Fannin's ram eastern Ogilvie Mtns YT. September 2016 in sleet/snow/blowing wind...never got above 26deg F. 10 rams on mountainside trying to get tucked under ledges as weather got worse. One shot 265 yards lying in his bed. Got it all on video. Spencer Wallace, my guide, was awesome and we just missed getting a clear shot on a Grizzly also, but no clear sh... Read more
Diddywahdiddy*This is a really nice job done by Ken and Marcus. The cape shows the Yukon Fannin "pelage" (markings/coloration) really well, and I like the "chroming/ridging" of the ram's horns. I can't wait to get back next year to hunt this drainage as there were a few really good-looking yet younger rams.
Diddywahdiddy*Again, Spencer Wallace is my friend and an awesome guide. During this pic it was sleeting/snowing/raining and blowing 30-plus mph and my little bitty thermometer said 22 degrees F!!
Diddywahdiddy*Sept 9, 2016. 27 degrees F, wind whipping hard at 20-30mph, rain/sleet/light snow. We picked out the oldest of the 10 rams, this Fannin went 38.5" both sides, 10.5 years old. 265 yards uphill, shot him in his bed...he just rolled over.
Diddywahdiddy*Sept 9, 2016. It was a busy 48 hours...took 8 hours for Spencer and I to cape, quarter, disarticulate the ribs, cut out the backstraps, disarticulate the head/horns, wrap the meat in light plastic, cut willows to cover the meat, then back to spike camp two miles away and crash for a few hours. Next a.m. call Dan on the Sat phone to meet him to help him start flying out moose, then we headed the op... Read more
Diddywahdiddy*Close-up of AK-Yukon bull. Older bull, past his peak where he would have had better "tops" 1, 2, 3 years prior. An old warrior. What a massive animal, about two weeks before the rut.