I don’t think I’ve ever been on a mountain hunt up here and not had snow somewhere close by. Even in August, typically you don’t have to get too high in elevation to find patches of snow, be it sheltered and or shaded areas, or old avalanche shoots. In regards to the meat getting wet, obviously any water that can potentially contaminate the meat with bacteria is a no go, but I don’t think rain is necessarily a bad thing as long as it’s a cold rain (which is usually the case just about any time of the year up here). Several years ago I killed a goat in early Oct. on the second day of a 12 day hunt. I was hunting solo, and by the time I got everything packed back to the lake that I had been flown into, it was day 5. Before I was able to get an early flight out, a pretty major storm hit and I ended up spending the next week just trying to stay dry. Needless to say, the only thing I could do with the meat was put it up on top of boulders to keep it out of the water. The makeshift tarp I had put over the meat was shredded on the first night with winds gusting over 100mph. Long story short, the meat got wet and stayed wet the entire time I was there and I couldn’t do anything about it. I thought for sure that the meat was going to be ruined. Anyway, I got back home and processed it, and it turned out to be some of the best, if not the best, goat meat we’ve ever had. Conditions were cool for the entire hunt, sometimes hovering in high 30’s, and never much above 50°, so that definitely helped, but I thought for sure the meat was trashed with all that moisture.
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