Evening journal., 1920-11-08
BIC LEAGUE HUNTING
By MORRIS ACKERMAN.
Noted FISHING aud Hunting ExI

Noted Fishing and Hunting Expert.
Stalking big game on the top OF
the world" is crammed full OF hard
ships and thrills.
The hardships make you say an
emphatic ''Never again" when the trip
ends, but the thrills will pull you
back into 1t again next fall.
Just why is a hunter?" is a subject
that can't be put in words. It's a feet
ing.
I've just returned from what l con-
slider the finest big game trip TO be
found on the American continent
and II has been my good fortune to
have made many splendid hunting ex-
pediu0ns in the past.
Can you imagine big game hunt OF
40 days In which you and your three
companions bag five grizzlies, one
brown bear, one black bear, three big
horn rams, four billy goats, four bull
caribou and two bull moOse2
That was our reward for a skim
ming the alp-lands above the timber
line in the Canadian Rockies Of Brit
ish Columbia and Alberta.
Here's what We sighted. Eight grizz-
lies. 20 moose. 3S caribou. black
bears, brown bears. ii9 big horn
sheep, SO goats and one cross fox.
With me were ID. Clarence Hardy, OF
Milwaukee, and Dr. Frank Romig and
Attorney Paul Thompson. Of Cleve-
land. our party got together at
Mount Robson, B. c., October 6.
Outiltter "Curlie" Donald Phillips,
Of Jasper Alberta, one Of the most
noted Sf Rocky Mountain guides, met
MS with his four assistants. p pack
horses and The pack dog. Brownie
The big game hunter. particularly
the nrsi-timer, In making a trip TO
the Canadian Rockies In search OF
sheep. grizzlies, moose and happiness
Is I'm for a rude shock. The games Is
there an CHI We got ours But IT'S
a real heman's job TO live in the wilds
and battle against the barriers which
you are continually meeting.
An eastern hunt Is tame beside the
one we went through The eastern
brand means but two or three weeks
away from the family nreside and
costs around 300 smackers.
The outftter furnishes The tent.
blankets. grub and also a canoe. You
go "light." Maybe you bag a moose
or a brace OF deer and call 10 a big
game irip. That's what ! call a cinch
hunt from experience.
But Il was a different proposition
In the Rockies. Our western guide
and outntter furnished the saddles
lhe pack horses and the grub.
We took along the rest. Each Of our
party had two high-powercd rifles,
heavy blankets, a sleeping bag, a pair
of snow shoes. two pairs OF calked
boots for climbing, enough clothes to
make a visit to the north pole and
sufficient ammunition to start a young
revolution.
We were loaded up like human
/ freight cars when we hit the up-trail
away from the comforts Of the world
that dropped out OF sight behind us
our destination was the region
/ above the timber line where the bil
game feeds and exists away from hi;
| worst enemy-man
Forty days OF this and we didn't looi
so spick and span. When we can't
out our clothes were in t9tlers. A rai
| man wouldn't even have made a hil
! for them. All Of us would have qual
/ flied for a Santa Claus job with ou
| long boards.
We had gone through seven kind
OF hades. We had suffered many
/ hardships. But we had the game an,
we had made the big league trip II
hunting.
/ "That one answer to "why is
hunter?"