craigd: Many thanks for all that! Would that I was up there for purely sporting purposes. Driving up there with a good double and some hunting gear will be the usual complication (keeping everything concealed and secure is always the challenge). Work generally involves 10 to 12-hour days, leaving little time (& energy) for much of anything else. My faint hope is that while in "down moments" (that aren't filled with laundry and other self-maintenance activities) I can look around a bit. Actually picking up the gun and walking around with it would be almost to good to hope for, but it is a carrot that I might just hold out for myself. What I'd do with anything I'd actually be able to bag would be the next challenge. Not insurmountable, but complicated none-the-less.
