The sculpture is actually of three bighorns, a mature ram and two younger adolescents. Done in bronze, the sculpture depicts the trio scrambling down a steep rocky slope. They are about life size and very well detailed, completely realistic. The sculpture is mounted on a large native boulder, in front of which a bronze plaque is mounted on a shirt steel post relating a bit of the lives of typical bighorn sheep.
The sculpture, unveiled in October of 2000, is the work of sculptor
Rick Taylor, originally of Alberta, who donated it to the town of Radium. It is entitled
Heading For Radium. Reading the plaque below will reveal that it is autumn and the rams are headed down from the mountains to the valley around Radium to engage in the annual mating ritual.
