 This is from 2011 and this is the last time I saw this warrior close up in the Monument...
|  Saw this guy from below on the curve up above me about a mile from the Visitors center in Colorado National Monument. So got my camera ready took this shot along with the following photo's. He had a young buddy with him and the females and young were below him and they ran off in the other direction when cars began to gather where he was.
|  There were cars parked where I took the first photo but I realize that if you do not act in haste they usually do not spook, so I drove real slow up to where he was and got these poses. He was still standing there when I left as slow as I came but shortly he was gone because of all the other vehicles plus a car was coming down. The folks in one car said he and the young Ram ran off in the opposite direction.
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 |  |  |  If you notice he has a scar on his nose from head butting another ram in the past and it is just a scar now.
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 This was his buddy.
|  |  |  I stopped farther up the road and he came to my right and went across the road behind me.
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 In these profile photo's you will notice the swelling on his snout between his nostrils and eyes. I have seen that before plus the broken hide like that after they butted heads. It left him with a scare when it healed. That is a healed wound from past battles.
|  It is just my guess that he has not gotten a wound on his nose this season but it is still swollen from a fresh head butt. Maybe he missed getting hit by a horn this time.
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 |  The first batch of photo's taken 10/31 were in full sunlight. The ones added here were in Fruita Canyon in the shade and it shows the brown tint of their hair.
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