New Year HUNT
I’d had a massive year of guiding and we’d taken some amazing animals. I had done a fair bit of hunting for myself but didn’t pull the trigger on anything apart from a few meat animals. Maybe I’m getting too fussy…
I had four days to myself to see in the new year and had a few plans I’d been tossing up for a while. The weather was not perfect for the alpine crossing I had been aiming for, so I headed into some more eastern tahr country instead, where I hadn’t been for a few years. This area always holds reasonable animal numbers but it also attracts a lot of hunters. Finding a mature animal would be difficult so I had planned to cover as much country as I could, mapping out three saddles to go through, all over 1800m. It was going to
