Most of the rams were close to legal at probably 7/8 curl, but we just weren't seeing any that made the mark. Then as the fog lifted further we saw a group of four rams, one of which had a longer right horn. After more than an hour of glassing I was confident that he was full curl on his right horn so he was legal and it was time to go after him. We quickly found out that those rams had the perfect vantage point in the valley as they could see every approach angle. We spent a couple hours working our way through the banks of the creek bottom below, but we could only close the distance to about 575 yards. We eventually tried a flanking maneuver with the cover of a quickly rolling fog bank, but that only got us to within 500 yards and then we got busted by one of the smaller rams. They started walking out of the valley and I took off after them once they went out of sight. Unfortunately when I got to where I could see them again they were heading over the far ridge. Day officially over, time to go back to camp and get some well needed rest.

The view to the north...