The more time I spend on this planet, the more convinced I become of this:
The toughest thing a human being can do isn’t surviving a brutal pack out, running 100 miles, riding out a storm tent at -40°, or even climbing Mount Everest.
It’s motherhood.
Pregnancy. Delivery. Postpartum. The weight of it all. The physical sacrifice. The relentlessness of zero days off.
If you’re reading this and you’re not some AI robot, you were born from a mother. And that woman was bloody tough. @mtbound is the toughest person I know. So Happy Mother’s Day to all the truly hardcore moms out there.
Pictured 09/21/2025 — Backpack sheep hunt in the Cassiars. About to get worked by winter conditions. 8 weeks pregnant. Zero fucks given.
Longtime Hilleberg Ambassador, videographer, and sheep hunter extraordinare Adam Foss often relies on his Enan while deep in the B.C. backcountry. Its single-pole design makes it quick and easy to pitch, allowing for maximum mobility when shifting locations from day to day while keeping a low weight and profile.
Photo: Adam Foss / @fossman8
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Life lately // �
The past couple months have been full gas in all the best ways.
We moved into a new house. Welcomed our 2nd son Rocco to the crew. Snuck away to Honduras with good friends to fish the flats. Tried to keep up with Nico. Blew my foot jumping out of a boat chasing a permit. Tried to sleep. Ran a 50k trail race on a taped together foot without much training. Tried to sleep some more. Still ate a lot of calories.
Still figuring out the balance with all this. Photography, storytelling and big adventures in the mountains have given me a lot, but the older I get the more I realize that some of the best parts of life happen during the simplest of times.
�So thanks to all the friends and family that helped pull off these last few weeks. @mtbound are out here and hanging in there! We couldn’t do it without you, but even if we could, there’s no way we’d want to. ♥️
The cross section of bowhunting, adventure and a camera has taken me to interesting places I wouldn’t have normally gone and introduced to me to a lot of really cool people I wouldn’t have ordinarily met.
Is it the only way to have those things occur in one’s life? Certainly not.
But it seems to be a pretty damn good one thus far. So I suppose I’ll keep doing it.
If the women don’t find you handsome, they’ll at least at least find you handy.
Fortunately for these fellas, they have the best of both as they can build sea-worthy boats from scratch, fix about anything they could break and wrangle food from the sea and land for lunch and dinner.
Alt. caption: I sure like you son, but you’re hard on equipment.
I’ve somewhat avoided a few things over the year, not because I wasn’t interested, but because I was I know what it could turn into. If I like it, it usually turns into another ridiculous obsession — another rabbit hole.
Flats fishing was one of those.
Nevertheless, the stars aligned and so here’s a few from a couple bowhunters going way down south and wandering onto the flats for some sun, sunburns and cervezas.
We had a blast, met some awesome guides who mostly kept us from hurting ourselves, and just soaked it in. Thanks for the good times, big laughs and bonus T etanus shots @headsupflyfishing .
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12 years on the wet, moss and snow covered cliffs is a long time to make a tough living. We barely can squeak out 10 days at a time during the milder times of year.
So long live the crusty billy goat and those who chase him.
📸 @mtbound
“It’s the places sheep lead you. Their world sits in these remote, windswept corners of the mountains where everything feels a little bigger, bolder, and timeless. Even reaching the edge of their habitat is an adventure–long approaches, big country, and those moments where you think, I can’t believe places like this still exist.
I love that part of it. The landscapes, the weather, the light–it all pulls you into a different rhythm outside of everyday life.
And the sheep themselves are endlessly interesting to watch: a band stretched out on a ridge or ewes and lambs bouncing around in the sun. Their social dynamics, how they move through that terrain–it deepens your appreciation for their world. For me, sheep hunting is less about the hardship–although that is definitely an element of it at times–and more about the privilege of spending time in the country they call home…”
You can read our full highlight and interview of Adam Foss in Issue 3 of 2026. Link to become a subscriber is in our bio.
In sheep country, the best hunters often move the least.
Adam and Frankie Foss spent four days picking apart this basin in northern British Columbia, studying every crack and shadow until a mature ram finally revealed himself in the last light.
Most hunters would have moved on. They stayed behind the glass, watched and waited.
With optics like the Leica APO-Televid 82 spotting scope and Geovid Pro rangefinding binoculars, patience becomes a strategy. The kind that saves miles on your legs — and sometimes finds the ram everyone else walked past.
📷 @fossman8@mtbound
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