Backcountry Hunting in Spain's Remote Mountains
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Raw from the field, this episode details the first half of a hunting adventure high in Spain's remote, extremely rugged Pyrenees Mountains. My long-time hunting partner Austin Brown was intent on taking an indigenous, free-range chamois the hard way—by climbing above timberline, glassing up an old male, and climbing within range.
In a surprise bonus, we got to visit a 1,000-year-old church unfathomably deep in the mountains, where an 11th-century Crusader's skeleton is buried—but visible beneath glass.
Guide Juan Pedro "Juan-P" and cigarette-rolling, chain-smoking, mountain-scaling game keeper Oscar took us high above timberline, where we found bands of chamois feeding beneath the snowline. Big old males tend to be loners, but we eventually found just the right one.
This is his story, and Austin's. And it's a must-listen for anyone that's ever dreamed about hunting Europe's high country. After this experience, it's impossible to recommend it highly enough.
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| 0:00.0 | Austin you just told me I should start this podcast with an imagine this or picture that and said I hadn't done that in a long time. |
| 0:09.0 | You're right, I haven't used that hook for a while, but folks, |
| 0:13.6 | see if you can picture this as Austin tells us where we're at. |
| 0:18.0 | That was completely unfair. |
| 0:19.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:20.4 | Oh, you're welcome. |
| 0:22.2 | By the way, guys, you've heard Austin on this show many times. Austin Brown, my good friend and hunting partner from Oklahoma. |
| 0:29.0 | Well, so I'd say the picture of this part was what we saw today at the top of this valley, |
| 0:37.3 | at the bottom of a huge bowl with a lake below us and a hydroelectric dam, |
| 0:42.1 | reminded me something like out of a John Wayne movie or not a John |
| 0:45.0 | way movie, James Bond movie, completely different genre. |
| 0:48.6 | But that reminded me of something that you would see there with the power lines in the industrial and then we're in |
| 0:53.2 | I mean gosh we're in the Pyrenees for goodness sake. Pyrenees mountains of |
| 0:57.4 | Northeastern Spain. So it was breathtaking to say the least. |
| 1:03.6 | Absolutely blew my expectations. |
| 1:07.2 | I mean, I didn't know what to expect, |
| 1:09.4 | and it was phenomenal. |
| 1:10.8 | And this story starts not even half a year ago. |
| 1:15.0 | No, in January. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah, January where the two of us got a surprise invitation to go to the DSC banquet with Adam Weatherview out a couple of extra tickets |
| 1:25.9 | so we're sitting there and thumbing through the brochure of the auction hunts |
| 1:30.3 | right these are donation hunts that the DSC uses for its various good causes, |
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