Unit G10 (Tenmile)

CPW's own harvest estimates put mountain goat success in unit G10 at 92% across all manners of take. A number like that comes from few tags and a short season, not from easy hunting. The plan: glass from across the basin, judge the climb honestly, and decide whether a hit animal could be recovered.

Glassing from McNamee Peak, Peak Ten and Wheeler Mountain

Take a position on one of McNamee Peak (13,747 ft), Peak Ten (13,634 ft), Wheeler Mountain (13,604 ft) and Father Dyer Peak (13,591 ft) and be on it before light. In the dark the air runs downhill. Pick an approach that doesn't send it into the country you want to see, and plan to move once the slope warms. A tripod is worth more here than another hour of walking. On the rut hunts, early hunts find goats higher and later hunts find them pushed down by snow.

Where unit G10 sits inside MG-07

Across MG-07, CPW's 2023 mountain goat success runs 94% in unit G16, 92% in unit G10, 82% in unit G7 and 40% in unit G15. That puts unit G10 behind 1 of the 3 other units in the herd. If the draw lets you choose, unit G16 carried the better number in the same herd — check its tag count before you read that as an easier hunt.

The way in: I-70, Colo. 9 and USFS 404

We have no road inventory for this unit, so the only routes we can name are the ones CPW draws the boundary with: I-70, Colo. 9, USFS 404, Summit CR 10 and Colo. 91. Those are its edges, not its interior — useful because they are where you leave the pavement, and useless for telling you what the inside is like. Park on the boundary and walk; a unit you can only enter from its rim rewards whoever is willing to leave the truck at the rim.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Tenmile Range, Pacific Peak, Traver Peak and Peak Ten as places to see from, and Horseshoe Basin, Boreas Pass, McCullough Gulch and Blue Rock Spring as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Join two of them into a morning: be on the first before light, move to the second once the thermals turn.

What a day here costs you

105 square miles is more country than a week will cover, so pick one drainage and learn it rather than driving the unit. The ground is gentle enough that the pack-out is a distance problem rather than a climbing one. One good position held through the whole of first light beats three visited in a hurry.

What we can't tell you

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it.