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ALASKA-YUKON, CANADA, AND EUROPEAN. Our target is the Canada Moose, in Columbia Británica, where as the season opens on August 15, they are cleaning their horns and preparing for the competitions for females that begin on the second fortnight of September. --Continuing with our field diary, we report the last adventure of this expedition…

DAY 16

After breakfast we salt the skin of the Mountain Goat, while we wait for the light aircraft which should come with a new hunter to initiate his hunt for Stone Sheep. The plane arrives at mid-day and brings a doctor of Oklahoma, “Rob”, a 40-year-old who looks to be in good condition and who hopes to finally complete his Slam of American sheep. My guide Blair will be his director of adventure. The plane also brings to us supplies and some beer for our week after the Moose. This time I will take it with great deliberation; I will only pull the trigger if I see a good specimen.

My guide in this occasion is “Pirls”, 50-year-old serious man and expert of the forest where he works daily…a skillful foreman with the horses and frugal in words…a tough sort.

DAY 17

We go out at dawn along with Rob's expedition. For three hours our combined caravan makes way along this forest of brush. On having come to a river we separate toward our two different destinations. We continue to a valley of singular beauty, with several small lakes and flooded bogs, up to a bend in the river that would be our camp for five days. As we approach, a female moose with her baby makes us happy at the sight with her wonderful silhouette. I light the bonfire while Pirls sets up camp, we head to the sack after eating some food.