mooseslayer, perhaps you have already done this, but I encourage you to evaluate being a guide. Spend some time getting to really know what it means to guide. Your hunting season will be nearly non-existant, pay is pretty lousy, and the hours are terrible. You must be in top notch shape. I don't want to discourage you, but I would really spend sometime researching this kind of life. When I graduated highschool my goal was to move to the west, go to guide school and spend the rest of my life in the mountains. After I researched I decided the agony outweighed the glamour.