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    Hinds Tarn - Tahr ballot block

    Heading into Hinds Tarn first period of the ballot.

    Would very much appreciate any advice on how to get around the block👍🏻

    Also interesting to get in touch with the hunters going to neighbouring blocks.

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    It can be tricky block in poor weather but in good weather it's pretty cool. The landing site is high altitude and not very sheltered from big winds. A few trees around to give you some protection.
    Most of the hunting is above camp on the same side of the valley. The tops are tussocky then end up pretty steep and rocky. There will be tahr not far from camp.
    Getting down into huntable scrub country on your side of the valley is a bit of a mission, doable, but a mission. It's very steep off the edge from camp.
    Have a search in google. There are quite a few images and a couple videos online.
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    Think the guy from deer dog blueprint did a video on it chasing bulls in the scrub.

    I have been there once we did all our hunting up in the bluffs above camp and along the valley up towards the saddle at zora valley
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    Hours of direct sunshine at that campsite can be limited & as with most blocks can get pretty cold. We had most luck zig zagging the tops above camp to get eyes on the various guts & down into the scrubby faces the seemed to hold bulls. The high ground above camp will allow you to glass down into the scrub looking towards Zora Canyon & there should be a few animals there

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