Lobo,

Way to go!!! With a little planning and time invested you are in for a great hunt. My dad drew this tag last year, and with a little prep work he harvested a very respectable ram about 10 AM opening morning. If you want my advice, this is what my game plan would be;

1.) Contact Jeff "Bernie" Bernitowitz at the Region 3 office. He is the biologist that has covered the Quil for many, many years. His knowledge of the area is great, and he can tell you basically everything you need to know short of actually checking it out for yourself. He can also send you some nicely detailed maps of the unit.

2.) Scout. You can get fairly comfortable with the area in a couple of trips. There is a lot of steep hills there, but that's what the sheep like.

3.) Exercise. I have no idea what kind of shape you're in, but hiking the Quil all day will bust your ass if your not in at least halfway decent shape.

Unfortunately, with 8 tagholders out there this year(and 6 last year) this is not a hunt that you will be able to scout a single sheep and "put him to bed" so to speak. There will be too many people running around in there from now until after the opener to do that. The other guys we saw last year were anything but delicate in how they scouted. These animals are not very spooky most of the rest of the year, but by the time the season opened last year they were.

Post back here if you have anymore questions, I would be glad to help. I have some friends from E'burg that spend a lot of time in that unit, all year long.