2022 Hunt

It was great to get back to having a somewhat normal season in 2022. Our season went amazingly well all considered. One of our biggest challenges was getting up to camp—floods, washouts and fires in the Yukon made the trip a real challenge.

Some of the crew and I flew to camp from Ross River with two Twin Otter loads of perishables and essential items on July 06 th . It was a scramble to get everything ready at camp with our first clients arriving on July 14 th . Getting our horses up to the end of the road for “trail in” was a struggle. Road closures, wash outs and fires all caused delays—thankfully our first horseback hunt clients were all very understanding and were willing to backpack. They just wanted to get out and hunt!.

Ryan & Mary and the horse crews finally made it up the road to start trail in on July 15 th . The horses made it into camp about 5 days later—the outfit was a little tattered but it was sure great to see the old ponies in camp. We did enjoy really good weather, mostly warm with timely rains and showers to keep things growing—but very buggy. We had a great berry crop so the bears and other berry pickers were happy. The early season caribou hunting was also a challenge with the bulls living on the very tops.