After our 1999 hunting season I attended the Alaska Professional Hunters Association’s annual meeting.  Most of the professional Alaskan guides attend this meeting which includes a banquet.  It’s a great time for guides to get together and discuss their past season and to work on guide related issues.  While talking to some of my guide friends and acquaintances I mentioned that we had had a client that broke his leg twice and he still wanted to continue his hunt.  A couple of them said, “Whoa, that’s a tough dude.”  Then I would tell them it was an artificial leg and continue my story.  The client’s name has been changed to protect his privacy.  I will have to say that Al really had the desire and fortitude to hang in there.  He was determined.