Monarch of the Alps

With a few places on the hit list after a fair amount of scouting through summer, I knew it was going to be a serious trip with less beer and yarns than most…

With an alright weather forecast, I planned a 4/5 day loop, covering huge ground from the truck where I’d parked a long way up a Canterbury riverbed. Before leaving, I put a fouling round through my custom Rem 700 300 Win Mag, which blew a clean hole in the star of a Speights box at a hundred-odd yards.

All loaded up, I set off from the truck around noon, making my way up a picturesque valley. It didn’t take long to run into deer sign, which was pleasing as