Avalanche Gorge Mountain Goat

[PacificNWhunter]

Great pic's, gotta love the high country. That's cool that the one has a collar on too.

[cohoho]

Great pics of truly a wonderful animal.  Been on a couple hunts for them, we shot two, but was in the assistance of my buddies goats and their not residing on my wall....  Damn, I hate drawing straws on a three person hunt......  One of the coolest animals out there in my opinion....  I'll get mine one day......  Hey maybe , I'll draw here in Washington on my first application!  I once saw flying monkeys, although it was on a movie....  Good pictures for sure.......

[streak]

There were only 2, one for Avalanche Gorge and one for Chowder Ridge.  I met the guy who had the Chowder Ridge tag on the last weekend of the season and he had yet to fill his tag.  He said he was from the Peninsula and he had been up in the area hunting almost every weekend of the season but he had been very unlucky.  One weekend he had a huge billy that he just couldn't get close enough to for a shot.  He said there were three bear shot in the same area that weekend and their shots kept spooking the billy.  Another weekend he as up hunting and there was a helicopter getting a body out of the area so he didn't see any goats.  He was on his way up the ridge in a lot of snow without snowshoes.  He was planning to spend the weekend camped up there.  I never did hear how he did, but I did see a herd of about 60 goat in the same area two weekends later when I was back country skiing, so it is possible he got a shot off on one of them.  I never did hear about the Avalanche Gorge tag.  It was during season when I took these pictures and I didn't see anyone up there hunting.  But who knows.