This is 99% Invisible.

I'm Roman Mars.

In 2019, two hunters were scouting for elk and Wyoming when they came across a peculiar

feature in the landscape.

The hunters had first noticed it while pouring over maps of the area.

Now they were driving out to see it for themselves, a kind of break in the terrain near the state's southeast corner.

So it's open country, it's open ranch country, sagebrush country, and then there's this big mountains sticking up right there in the middle of it that just it's the only mountain.

Brad Cape is a fencing contractor from central Missouri.

Brad has been hunting since he was old enough to walk.

So when he and his hunting partner saw the lone mountain with its dark timber and the arid,

empty land around it, he knew what it meant.

It is a very unique place.

And you can see on a map that it's a very unique place. But whenever you drive around it,

it really comes to life. It is a rocky mountain that sits out by itself. You know, it might

have a big bull's eye on it that says there's elk here. And it's true. The mountain basically screamed good hunting.

That's Montana-based journalist, Nick Mott.

I'm a hunter, too, so I get how Brad felt when he found this spot.

Pouring over land boundaries and topographic lines, trying to figure out where animals are

and other hunters aren't.

Finding that perfect area is often

nearly as exciting as the hunt itself. And this time, all the pieces of the puzzle were fitting

into place. The area had everything big game needed, forage, water, cover. On the map, the peak was

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