Peaks, that's a realistic point.
In my situation, I have no family nor relatives who live in the mountains as I do.
My scenery is vertical.
Visitors expect as much as they might see in the nearest National Park (Jasper.)
Not hard to do.
In the beginning, I wondered how effective a $600 spotting scope would be, just how much use I would ever get from the thing.
In the autumn, I'm up the logging roads for grouse maybe 40 days of a 100 day hunting season.
I don't haul the scope along just for fun. I can stand and scan the rock slopes for moving white dots. I know exactly where to look.
I know the goats and sheep are there.
You show up. I can make like a magician to show you goats and sheep in the no hunting refuge, 2 miles away and a mile higher than the scope.
Optics. The Objective lens size gives you a measure of the light-gathering power of the scope.
When compared with the size of the pupils of my eyes, the Nikon 82mm objective sucks in hundreds of times more
light than the human eye can pull in.
Wait until just before dark, gloomy light. The 82 is as bright as noon.
Now, we will slide out after supper and go owl spotting. As dusk turns to dark, maybe 6-8 species.
If we get really lucky, maybe some Lynx.
Partly because I know where a den is and we might just find the parents and cubs!