Unit S67 (Flattops (S. Fork White River))

CPW's own harvest estimates put bighorn sheep success in unit S67 at 0% across all manners of take. A number that low means most hunters here go home empty, and the ones who don't put the days in first. The plan: pick a glassing position across from the escape terrain and stay on it for hours, not minutes.

Glassing from Sable Point, Hunns Peak and Himes Peak

Take a position on one of Sable Point (11,299 ft), Hunns Peak (11,232 ft), Himes Peak (11,164 ft) and Chinese Wall (10,976 ft) and be on it before light. Cold air slides downhill in the dark, so keep your scent out of the bowl you mean to watch; expect the thermals to turn uphill an hour after the sun reaches the slope. Glass the edges first, then the shaded timber, then the edges again as the light goes. On the rut hunts, late hunts put rams with ewe groups on the same rock.

Where unit S67 sits inside RBS-33

Across RBS-33, CPW's 2023 bighorn sheep success runs 100% in unit S59, 100% in unit S74 and 0% in unit S67. Unit S67 is the lowest of them, so whatever drives success in this herd is happening somewhere else in it. If the draw lets you choose, unit S59 carried the better number in the same herd — check its tag count before you read that as an easier hunt.

The way in: USFS 245, Blanco CRs 17 and USFS 250

We have no road inventory for this unit, so the only routes we can name are the ones CPW draws the boundary with: USFS 245, Blanco CRs 17 and USFS 250. 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. Check each of them on a current motor-vehicle-use map before you count on it, because a line on a boundary description is not a promise of public access.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Trappers Peak, Lost Lakes Peaks, Little Marvine Peaks and Big Marvine Peak as places to see from, and Lost Solar Park, Amphitheatre and Johnson Park 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

394 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.