58 CAMP FIRES IN THE YUKON 



Cutting, with Baker and Dixon, went up the pass 

 and across the caribou barrens. 



After Hoyt and the writer had gone up the creek 

 about four miles, we tied our horses and started 

 through the timber for the base of the mountain 

 where we had located the rams. After consider- 

 able work we came out on a knoll to take a look at 

 their heads before beginning our stalk, but aot a 

 ram was to be seen; we looked over every foot of 

 the mountain for an hour, and then concluded the 

 game had climbed to the top and gone over the 

 range where it was useless to follow. There was 

 nothing to do but return to our horses in the creek 

 bottom where the pack train overtook us, and we 

 proceeded up through the canyon and camped at the 

 last timber on Wolverine Creek. 



Our other hunters had very much better luck, for 

 after climbing to the barrens they located a caribou 

 four miles away and began a stalk with a favoring 

 wind. The caribou was lying down on the slope of 

 a high butte, so the hunters climbed above the ani- 

 mal and then sat down to recover their breath and 

 steady down a bit before shooting. Wolcott 

 opened fire and missed with two shots at one hun- 

 dred and fifty yards. The caribou started to run 

 around the slope, and Cutting took him behind the 

 shoulder and killed with a single shot. We after- 

 wards discovered Wolcott's sight was one six- 

 teenth of an inch off center, though at the time Wol- 



