Yes he was in the Escalante unit and I think that was his 3rd trip.
I drew that unit in 2002 and before I drew, but after I applied, I ended up having to have back surgery. Right after my surgery I found out I had drawn. I was really worried but I recovered very fast and within a month I was hiking 6 miles a day. Within two months I was doing that, with a weighted pack and within three months I was able to do it with a 70 lb. pack. Boy was I ever thankful and happy I recovered that fast. But in late August, of that year, my heal started to hurt and within two weeks I could not walk. I ended up going to the doc and found out I had a bad case of plantar facetious. I had several shots, did physical therapy, but to no avail and had to end up turing my tag back, just a few days before the hunt was scheduled to open.
In those days that was a great unit. although very demanding to get to the nice sheep. (Its about a 17 mile, hard, hike just to get to where you can hunt.) That is where my buddy went, but there were very few sheep in there and really not a ram he wanted.
I ended up drawing the Dirty Devil in 2004. I am strictly a bowhunter, and ended up not getting a sheep, but I got and missed two shots, at a huge ram, that my buddy who got this ram, found for me. Since that time, that unit too has declined drastically too.
But my buddy Shane is a hard hunter and sticks with it until he can get it done.
Have a good one. BB