Louis:

Can you tell us some more about the land there? Who owns it? Must you obtain a permit or some other permission to access/hike thru/hunt on the land?

I've read many stories of Maquis and escaped prisoners/flyers hiking across the Pyrenees during WW2. Always wanted to visit that part of France/Spain.

Thanks for a very interesting post.

By the way, the method we use for our skulls is cruder, but works alright. We skin the head, boil off the meat and then soak the head in bleach water. A bit of the back of the horns often gets bleached a bit, but we use wood stain to cover it and it cannot really be seen when the head is on the wall anyway. Just another method. Yours look more professional, but for hillbillies like us, ours is "ok".