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country, and among the mountains some 4,500 feet 

 above tide level. For eight miles of that distance the 

 road was so rough that horses could not be taken 

 through, and the camp stuff had to be dragged and 

 pitched over fallen timber, around rocks and under 

 and over them. One of the party claimed this to be 

 his twenty-second annual hunting trip, and he vowed 

 he never saw anything to equal it for roughness and 

 difficulties. They bristled with every step. One 

 caribou and three deer were shot, and as they couldn't 

 drag their game out of the country after killing it 

 they gave up the hunt as a bad job and returned to 

 the car, having taken three days to go up the moun- 

 tains and two to return. 



Two of the hunters were determined to get some 

 big game, even if they had to go alone after it. They 

 hired an Indian guide and a cook, got packhorses and 

 provisions and again started out into the mountains 

 where they proposed hunting big-horn-sheep up above 

 the snow line. They made their way through from 

 Canadian territory into the United States, arriving at 

 Spokane, Washington, a distance of 245 miles, camp- 

 ing up in the snow for several days, climbing around 

 snow peaks in moccasins, but always trying to keep 

 face to the wind. They finally succeeded in killing 

 four mountain sheep and three deer, but the hardships 

 they had endured, as evidenced by their torn flesh and 

 clothing, will keep them from trying it again, for 



