This story, “My Goat Was High,” appeared in the August 1970 issue of Outdoor Life. RON MARTIN WAS NOT the silent type of guide. He lowered his 6X binoculars and gave me a dry grin. “There are your ...

Brien Jones, who grew up in Oregon and moved to Alaska in 2001, is one of just two out-of-state hunters to draw a goat tag this year BAKER COUNTY — If the goal is to find the one immutable truth about ...

A five-hour horseback ride found us nearing timber’s edge. Through the claustrophobic conifers, granite peaks loomed in the wide open beyond. I’d hunted Dall sheep in various mountain ranges in Alaska ...

BAKER CITY — Melissa Hamman was watching mountain goats hundreds of yards away, not knowing that her goat was just around the next bend in the trail. Her husband, Robert, who was just ahead of Melissa ...

I WAS WORKING my way around the last perpendicular cliff below camp when the wind and rain hit me, covering my eyeglasses with a coating of water. I cased the glasses and groped on through the storm ...

Kevin White has placed his hands on the long, white fur of more than 400 Alaska mountain goats during the past 20 years. His diligence in studying this Ice Age wanderer of high, steep country has led ...

This was a hunt I had dreamed about for years, and no mountain was going to keep me from trying for a trophy goat. I’d be under other handicaps, too. I planned to bag one of those skyline billies with ...