Thanks Aussie_hunter_JD,
Looks like the photo posting worked--at least for awhile. Maybe I'm posting old stuff a little too often; but I find it is helping to get my blood up. I am hoping to give it either three more attempts or one successful hunt. If it hasn't already evaporated, I know the time is rapidly draining.
Perhaps you are, like me, a fan of Pink Floyd. Something I have often reflected upon is a line from one of their songs: "Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time, plans that either come to naught, or half a page of scribbled rhymes." The further I age, the more I am struck by how prescient those words were to have been penned by young musicians still in their twenties.
Something I hadn't yet revealed on these pages is that my 1980's sheep hunts were partly in memory of a deceased friend. Spencer Linderman was a graduate student pursuing a masters degree in Wildlife Management at the University of Alaska (Fairbanks) when I was just a freshman. He was remarkably friendly and accommodating given the gap of years and experience between us. We always planned making a Dall sheep hunt together. Unfortunately, it never came to pass. I had to leave Alaska in 1970 to answer a draft call. Reading an "Outdoor Life" article several years later, I learned that Spencer had been killed in an airplane crash while conducting an aerial Mountain goat survey in 1975. Ameliorating my grief was the knowledge that Spencer had lived more life in his 29 years than most people will know in 70 or 80. Perhaps I have just gone maudlin in my "Golden Years." Still, I think the older members of this forum will understand; and I hope the younger ones will take to heart the "carpe diem" message.
Thanks again for the kind words.
