“Bill really loves to hunt sheep.” Nothing else can compare to the site of a magnificent band of Dall rams high on a beautiful Alaskan mountain. I take only six sheep hunters per year and personally guide three clients myself. We travel by horseback, 6x6 ATV, or Supercub from a valley base camp to the sheep spike camps. These camps are established at approximately 4,000 feet in the mouth of a canyon. Guide and hunter share a 9 ft. by 9 ft. mountain tent, which is equipped with cots, lantern, cooking stove and plenty of good food. We will occasionally use an advanced spike camp located even higher on the mountain, saving one or two hours of hiking to a ram pasture. We’ll use high camps when we want to minimize the climbing time to a band of rams.

Sheep hunters should have a high quality daypack large enough to hold cameras, raingear, wind block clothing, binoculars, water bottles and personal gear. This is not a “tough guy” backpack hunt, but clients should make an effort to be in reasonably good physical condition. We highly recommend that sheep hunters come to camp with plastic mountaineering boots. An expensive hunt should not be ruined by blisters and tender feet caused by cheap and inadequate footgear! Remember to bring lots of film, because it’s beautiful up there.