CHAPTER XVII 



A GREAT MOUNTAIN SHEEP HUNT 



Variations in Sheep Hunring — Artistic Value of Scenery in Hunting — 

 John Norboe's Peril — Camp Necessity — Remarkable Goat Licks — 

 Sheep Signs — A Very Long Stalk — Attack in a Wind Storm — 

 Misses and Hits — Mack Norboe's "Hungers" — Three Dead Rams 

 — A Night of Terror. 



"Though far be the glacier-filled fountain, 

 The foot of the hunter is free. 

 Though high be the ram on the mountain, 

 The hunter climbs higher than he." 



In the hunting of mountain sheep in British Colum- 

 bia, there are many variations. In the south, among the 

 house-roof mountains, it is possible that you may be re- 

 quired to climb very high, amid real perils on the cliffs. 

 You may make tremendously long and steep climbs with- 

 out perils, or the sheep may run into your arms at an 

 elevation of eight thousand feet, as did the pair which 

 Mr. Phillips photographed. In northern British Colum- 

 bia and Yukon Territory, you can find sheep on low, hill- 

 like mountains in high country; or you may, like Charles 

 Sheldon, find them on slide-rock so fearfully steep that 

 you cannot measure a sheep, even after you have killed it. 



It is not all of hunting to kill game. The surround- 

 ings, and how you used them to outwit your keen-eyed 



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