With the half moon shining brightly to help light my way, I slowly snowshoed up into rugged yet spectacular rocky mountain goat country. My goal was to capture some rutting behaviour action of these hardy creatures in mid-November. An early 6:00 AM trailhead start was instrumental in getting up into their part of the world and hopefully capture some images of these beautiful long white haired beasts and make it down off the mountain by nightfall. With the temperature dropping to -25 C at night, I really didn’t want to spend the night up there. Here are some interesting facts on the rocky mountain goat. A dense inner wool is combined with long outer guard hairs that can grow up to 20 centimetres (8 inches) in length which will keep them warm throughout the worst ice cold blasts of winter. They live close to rocky crags which will enable them to escape predators more easily and they feed where the wind has blown most of the snow away from the grassy areas. /LEON LORENZ
