Big Game Hunting New Zealand Sep/Oct 2015 | Page 28

The next weekend I again met with Darren as
we headed south to the Rees Valley to have
a nosey around. At 10pm we left the truck
and 4 hours later we arrived at the hut in some
seriously icy conditions. We were grateful we
had a hut, but the corrugated iron and beech
pole frame didn’t look like the humble abode we
had hoped for. After a restless few hours in the
scratcher we awoke to the alarm and everything
frozen solid.
We made it to our first suitable glassing
position in good time and after half an hour
Darren spotted two chamois in the basin
above us 600m away. They were looking our
way and when we tried cutting back out of
sight they made a break for it disappearing out
of sight. We thought we’d try our luck anyway
and began making our way up towards th