Here are a few pictures from my Marco Polo and Ibex hunt last year. It was a 10 day hunt including travel from Kyrgyzstan. Its about a 10-12 hour drive from Osh depending on weather conditions and the amount of snow in the mountain passes. Weather conditions are fairly extreme, looking at -30 F temperatures an there is a constant wind which only makes it colder. Here is coming into Tajikistan near the border. The Soviets loved their monuments!
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I hunted out of a camp on Lake Karakul which has a base elevation of only about 13,000 feet. In Feb, its obviously frozen which means getting from point A to point B is a lot quicker, just drive across the lake. You could hear the ice popping and cracking and some of the pressure ridges were interesting getting across.
On the second day of the hunt, we made a 5 hour stalk on a band of 8 or so rams bedded down. Elevation is +14,000 feet. You can hunt them easier out of the jeep, but I prefer spot and stalk. My guides were not too happy, but they obliged. We saw these guys from a long ways away up in a bowl through our spotting scopes. Two were worthy of a closer look. The stalk was on and after a few hours, we got within 570 yards. One ram in particular was heavy and had the argali flare I was looking for. He wasn't the magical 60 inches, but was close enough for me! At at the end of the day, that is just a number and reserved for those with deep pockets willing to pay an "additional" trophy fee. To each their own. After two shots, one at 570 yards and the other at about 650 yards, both hits, I had my ram down. He and the rest of band ran over the ridge into the next basin and we found him later down low.