Be it your first wilderness elk hunt, an international Marco Polo hunt or a difficult Alberta Bighorn expedition, this course will get you in the zone. Spending time during those time intensive and costly hunts honing your skills doesn’t make sense… You need to be prepared before the hunt!

• Leave this course comfortable riding horses in rough terrain, knowing the ins/outs of how pack animals are utilized, and understanding safety precautions around horses and mules in the mountains.
• Leave knowing the basics of field care for high value animals. Every experienced international hunter and sheep hunter can tell you a story of a guide botching field work. This course will teach you the important details involved in capeing, turning and salting in remote environments.
• Leave knowing basic self trauma first-aid, remote communication and wilderness field craft.
• Leave confident in your ability to choose mountain species (elk, mule deer, sheep, goat, bear) guides and outfitters with precision. We will cover choosing domestic and international providers.
• Leave knowing how to live in a wall-tent camp and an extreme lightweight backpack camp.
• Leave with a better understanding of shooting in the alpine environment.

• All participants must be capable of hiking 2-3 miles at elevation. We view hunting as an active activity and each day of the seminar will contain physical activity.
• All participants are asked to read through the pre-course reading packet and watch the pre-course videos.
• Students are encouraged to have some history of hunting. The course is geared towards the level of experience of the individuals and group.

Cliff has guided and outfitted hundreds of hunts for mountain goats, bighorn sheep, elk, bears, and mule deer throughout North America. Outside of his extensive mountain guiding experience, Cliff is an avid backpacker and shooter. He is a pilot and a certified wilderness first responder. Cliff is a licensed guide in British Columbia and a registered outfitter in the State of Colorado with commercial special use permits for hunting, fishing, and remote horse packing in the White River National Forest and Flat Tops Wilderness Area of the Rocky Mountains. He grew up on ranches in Northern California and Adam’s Rib Ranch in Eagle Colorado, where his family managed an outfitting and cattle business.

He is the Founder of True Hunts and Flat Tops Wilderness Guides (FTGuides.com).

Cliff earned a BA from Stanford University in Economics and a MBA from University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.