 Good day everybody, welcome to the second day of the hunt. This is actually our fifth or sixth day of the trip, but we were totally rained in yesterday. So we've checked the weather, and we're gonna have at least two days of huddle weather. We may get stuck up there for one, but the next three days is really all the time we have before we have to start heading back. You know, this trip is 12 days long in total. It's really been four days of travel. And now it is time to get after it. We've seen all the sights at the most beautiful hike of my life, but it is time to hud hard and get it done. Ooh, he's on that rock right now. We're splitting up. I think the only way I'm even gonna have a chance to kill one with my bow is if we do, because this terrain is steep and it's nasty, and I'm gonna have to get above them, have any kind of a chance to sneak down on them. And so my plan is to get up real high, find a cave to sleep in or a flat spot to throw my tent up, and I'm just gonna stay up there with these animals because we have seen tar and chamois in both of these two avalanche shoots, these little creek beds the last three days. So the animals are there. I'm gonna kind of pull a Texas whitetail move. I'm just gonna go up there and sit and wait on it. I'm gonna hike up this creek here and head up to that avalanche shoot up there before almost putting the next three days. Good luck. Be safe. You too. With all your enriches, I'll message you. Yep. See you, buddy. See you in a few days. Yep. Get her down. Toddy, where are we heading? You're safe, buddy. Didn't see the unknown. Unknown. I love it. A couple more hours up the valley there, and up to a nice little basin that's tucked away there, full of old bull tar. Kill a hole. Kill a hole. That's actually where we're gonna go. We grew up hunting these mountains. Every time we've been up one of these shoots, he's like, it's a bit tougher than I've been before, but it's giving us a good workout. Athletics have never been so sore. It's been about an hour since we left JT to go up his chute. And now we're gonna head up ours. We're a few kilometers away. Got me saying kilometers already. A few kilometers away. So it's just me and Tod now. We're gonna head up to shoot that is behind us. It's probably gonna take us a few hours to get up there. It's a bit dodgy, according to him. So another thing that's really cool, they put these stones, they stack them on top of each other as trail markers, trail heads. There's not always the big orange signs. We're off the path right now. So you can kinda know underway back the way to go, which is really important, especially when it's dark. My pack's about, I'm gonna say 45 pounds today. So they're taking probably eight or nine pounds out of it. So it's, even that little bit feels a lot better, but every time it adds up, every mile you go, it adds up. Go now, let's trek up this chute, and then hopefully we're gonna get on some tar and chamois. We've seen lots of tracks on the way in here. Even seen some red deer tracks. So now it's just putting in the physical work and getting to the spot. It basically builds a stairway out of ice. That sounds sketchy. It's kinda late in the spring when all the kind of avalanches are formed. It's packed. Yeah, it was packed. Like it was like walking on concrete. Okay. Just to get up around the corner there. We can go the other way. Adventure time. Maybe there'll be some mermaids up there with some Gatorade across here. Right here. I think I'm okay. Yeah? Hope the rifle's up there. It's another bone, a little speed bump. This day we're forced now, and it's starting to turn into like, kind of like a West Texas scrub country. There's a lot of like, you know, dry looking plants. Isn't a little bit more rough, dry. And when you go up to like 8,000 feet, the plants just stop growing. It's just rocks. That's where we started today. It's right down at that river basin. Now we're up here over 3,000 feet. We are above some animals right now, but there's also some above us as well. So we're gonna try to get a little bit higher and try to find a place to camp. This is like, like where do you set up a tent right here? Spot a guitar? This is probably done. See the shaders? Yeah, they're just around to the right. So rich, it's not much, but set up the tent. I got my sleeping bag and my sleeping pad right there. Cooking set. And I've just got a little bit of food, my clothes in that pack, and then my kill kit. And we're basically gonna head up this mountain, see if we can get one of these goats and come back down here and sleep tonight. If it doesn't happen tonight. Dude. Tie down, brother. Wait, no, I think I'd have seen him rolling down. He's rolling? That's a nice tie. Yeah, we did it right exactly like you said. Yeah, just put it right on his shoulder. Yeah, no. As far as kill shots go, don't keep them. Fading light, it just, everything went like it planned. Got to within range and got set up. Pretty good position and yeah, we were about 15 minutes of light left and he popped out on this little ridge above us at 275 yards and took a little bit of time for Justin to find him in the scope Yeah, it did. When he did, the hand just squeezed off that shot and dropped them on the spot. So another day in paradise. Dude, fist bump in the sun down. God. It's the most beautiful place in New Zealand right now. This is absolutely the most beautiful place I've ever seen. We have the moon over here over those mountains and then the sun down there. Me and Todd went through the nastiest stuff. Literally, it makes you bleed. What do you call that? Kind of plant? It's a Spaniard grass. Spaniard grass, it's absolutely terrible. We hiked all the way through there, all the way up here. Todd spotted him in there. It's like hell getting up here, but it's heaven when you get up to the top. Unbelievable, I don't know what's better. This moment, the tar, like that view. This is absolutely incredible. That's my first tar. Last fist bump, man. So awesome. I might die. I've never been this tired in my life.