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Show j BIG LEAGUE HUNTING ! Stalking Grizzlies on the "Top of the World" For 40 Days Is a He-Man's Job, Says Ack Hv M iRRlS Kl KM N'otod Pishing and Huntliig i Kiiert Stalking big game on the lop of ihe woiid' is cramrpe'd full of hard- hipi a ml 't brills. The hardships make you Say an emphatic 'never agkln" when the trip ends, but the thrill! will pull you back into 1' again next fall. Just wh la a Iruhter?" is a sub. Ject thai can t be put In words. It's a feeling MM ( . M I I '. I . I've just relumed from what I con-side; con-side; thC Cllfeei bl! Kami- trip to be round on the American continent and r ha: been mj gol loitiin. fp ii.i mad mj splendid hunting ex-peditfoua ex-peditfoua lu thi past. eafi von Imagine a big garni hunt of 4(i days in whleh yr.u and pouf tin i-i cpiupantons bag five grlzalies, pne brown bear, one luack beat", tlffte ln- ho; i i. tm:. :.ii.i nil!'. ui it lour bull taiiboii ami two bull moose? Thai was our rev, -rd lot skimmtUH the aip-. uu.it above the timbei itpi in tin t anadlan Itetckies of British Columbia and Alberta. WHA1 IV! Mi re's w n.-it we .sighted, eight gri;:-zliMi gri;:-zliMi mouse, S8 caribou, tliree black iieais, two brown beaca, i I lug norh uneep. s:t dufS End Ohi cross fo.. With mj wen i '. larenire iiaidy. of Mi,va'ik--, and ! i i , ik ftomig and Aitoiuey Pad I Thompson, of Cleveland, uur purty Lr.: together at .Mount liobson. i;. f . Uctober 'j. initial, i i uri.e' Donald Phillips, oi a.ispvr, Albeiia, OU ..t II,. i....m noted of III c K j mpuntO-ln gu flies, nu-t lib Witil ll : ivitr M..'aiiuj. ..j p;.f-k hoiSS and th- PftCij dog, I a ovr llli -." RI DI. silOf W 'iht big ga .. iiuii.i . partlculanly Ihe i.r.j'.-tiii r. :n i:uklng a trip Up be I'anad-.aii ltuckles u.i aeurcii of .- i . i- griziies, moose and happiness, 'is ai . j i iv- gai:u i I ;iu ;e all" rignt. '. e got ouin. llift its ,1i-ji l. -mail's JOO tb i v.- in u, e wilds .hi. i battlj against the barriers whlch.von ai-- tout ui.Hliy meeting An eas.uan bun : laprc beside the on wi went tnrpugh Tc eastern brand nuii.3 bu; v u.- linee wc.-ks e,v.v IK.... t.'u- l.iui.i lues.de anil .. s aiotmd ;;! smuj ii ms. 1... o.utf.iter iu. 11.S..1 .-, the tent, blharkr-is, giui unt alj a canoe. on go light. Maybe yjra agyu moos o.' a brace pi ueer and ill It a lug same trip That's what I Call a cinch hunt fi oi i expel lend ' SO All nil j . R m i liut it Was 1 1 diffiri.it propdsitloh in the Rockies, ( mr western guide and outfitter furnished the saddles, ihe puck horses and the grubv We took along ihe test. I30C& of our party had two high-powered rifles, heavy blankets, a sleeping bag. a pair Of snow shoes, two pairs Ol Calked ooots for climbing, enough clothes Lo Hail' Hail! dn- sung's nil lie re, Hero's th Vckcrnian big ganu-hunt-lug party ai Moillfl Robsoil I'. ( anad., TllC had iu-i uulondt'd their outfits on tin platform ami were giving it the once over. They wen' prcttj i an fill about it. iu Their i sets deimndcd up iu u riiat's VCker-mm VCker-mm loading hi blgh-pnwerrd rifle f i grlzsltcs, i.-n i- l)r Irani. Romlg lb- lower (nscri I- iu ( ' Phillip . on.- of th - best guides doing bu-i-ii. - in tin Ku: kles make a v i.xit to the north pole and sufficient ammunition to start a youug revolution CLIMBING i P We Kvere loaded up like human freight cars whpn wa- bit the up-trall awu.v from th.- comforts of tin- w'orl.l that dropped out of sight b. hind us Our destination Was th.. region above the timber Inn 'ihere the big game feeds and exists away. from his worst enemy man. Forty days ,of this and we didn't look so spii k and span When we came out our clothes were In tatters. A rag man Wouldn t even baye made a bid for them All of us, would have qualified lor a Santa Claus job with our long beards. We had gone through 'leven kinds Of hades. W'e had suffered many hardships. Hut we had the game and vv i had made tile big league tilp in hunting. "Thai -: on. answer to 'why is a h ii nter '." " |