APR-A-4
MAKING PLANS AND PACKING UP FOR LATER
HUNTS FOLLWING HIMALAYAN CAMPS AND CLIMBS
Mar. 31, 2002
HERE IS A REALLY GOOD DEAL ON A BACKPACK WITH A BUILT IN WATER BLADDER FOR HYDRATION IN CLIMBING AND HUNTING!
Since I had not bought anything from Sportsman's Guide for the past two days, I thought I would keep their cash flow going by picking up the "Email Special" for later use.
I will be seeing Craig Schaefer later today, and we will be talking further about recruiting into an ibex hunt. I could only do the first season and only then by moving a trip already planned to Sikkim a bit earlier and going direct from there. My option is to cancel it altogether and as it would be my sixth Himalayan trip this year, I am inclined toward doing that.
What do you think of the .340 Weatherby as a caliber? This is the rifle I had carried on my FIRST Kamchatka bear hunt. I have heard from Russell Knight that the bearskin rug is almost ready.
I ma making rather extensive plans for the new addition to the house as a very special big game trophy room and am building it around the Snow Sheep, Kamchatka Big Horn full mount being readied at Zimmerman. I will compare notes on the plans and the design, soon to enter the subcontractor stage.
How was the SCI convention? I am still going to accompany you on one such future convention, but I am now committed for Feb. 21 ‑‑28/'03 in Mexico (Yucatan, Cozumel, etc) and Mar. 1‑6/'03 in Central America (Belize, etc), and all of that follows a return form Malawi and around Southern Africa in late January and earlier February next year. I do not know the SCI date for '03, but I will still hold out for a future show.
I still have the finished slide show and extra prints of the Kamchatka Big Horn sheep and bear hunt, and have submitted the Sheep photos to the SCI Hunt Report, with a later picture of the bear for a later report. Have you made enlargements from the negatives I had given you? I still have the additional originals sitting out for your review.
Let me know if you want to talk relatively soon, since I disappear the day after the April 15th Boston marathon for two weeks in Dharamsala and two weeks later in Nepal. I return mid‑May to leave mid June to the Spiti Valley June 12‑‑29. My July 17‑‑Aug 2 trip to Ladakh is followed by a trek with packstock on a medical mission into Lingshed Aug. 2‑‑27, followed by a five day ascent up Mount Stok Kangri, the Highest Peak in the Karakorum Range in Ladakh.
My schedule for the later travels in the year are attached with an additional commitment to go elk hunting in Colorado October 19‑‑26, to return for my 17th running of the 27th Marine Corps marathon on October 27.
Cheers!
GWG