Been a while, but it is back to proxy hunting. This weekend with help from James and Gregg I harvested a deer for Florence. It's getting to be late in the season - we started hiking at 6 AM and the sun did not come up until well past 7 AM. We were worried that all of the deer might have abandoned the alpine, but no worries. We spotted 6 deer and 2 bucks immediately.
None of the bucks seemed very large, and we decided to forego them and look over on the other side of the mountain. We went for the 'two birds in the bush' rather than the 'one in the hand'. And of course we paid deerly. Nothing on the other side of the mountain. So tail between legs we crept back to where we first saw the deer.
By 1 PM it looked hopeless, we'd glassed for hours and had seen nothing. All the deer had run away or bedded down - it was time to go home. Then as we started to hike home - I spotted a doe. And then James spotted a buck by the doe. And from there we had a deer on the ground. Florence has her buck.
Photos: Top, hiking up into the alpine soon after dawn. Middle, some steep cliffs up where we were hunting. Bottom, a picture of me getting ready to harvest Florence's deer. Patrick
2 comments:
Kuukula must be so happy her great Qatesqaq hunter delivered yet another tuntuq. Bless You Piugta!
Tuntuqchuk asirtuq cali pituranirtuq. Piugta
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