No other place can match the legendary lore of Kodiak Island, Alaska—notoriously and fondly known as the Rock. Continuously pounded by storms of Biblical proportions, mountains choked with miles of dense alder thickets, and bears the size of school buses—the Rock can be unforgiving. But when it comes to mountain goat hunting, Kodiak is truly next level.

Watch as KUIU’s Justin Shaffer, travels back to island on a late-season winter mountain goat hunt. The island throws everything it can at him, but he eventually overcomes the harsh weather and terrain to make the opportunity count on an old one-horned billy.