Camping/Hiking Gun in the Rockies suggestions.

[Dingo]

A Taurus Tracker .44 would probably be fine for whatever you'd run into out here. It can't handle the Buffalo Bore grizzly loads, but you won't run into griz out here. It holds 5 shots, is portable and light, and the .44 can be loaded to very respectable levels for mountain cats and black bears. The Ruger Redhawk in a short barreled flavor would be a heftier (and therefore could handle the nastier hardcast loads with ease) choice, but is still easily portable in a chest rig or cowboy-type hip holster.

[Atrain1]

A Taurus Tracker .44 would probably be fine for whatever you'd run into out here. It can't handle the Buffalo Bore grizzly loads, but you won't run into griz out here. It holds 5 shots, is portable and light, and the .44 can be loaded to very respectable levels for mountain cats and black bears. The Ruger Redhawk in a short barreled flavor would be a heftier (and therefore could handle the nastier hardcast loads with ease) choice, but is still easily portable in a chest rig or cowboy-type hip holster.

I agree with this as both will handle high powered 44 magnum loads, the Ruger a bit more than the Taurus. Depending on the money you want to spend you can always go with a Ruger Alaskan in either 44 magnum or 454 Casull. If you want something that will really do damage just by a Hi-Point as you do not even need bullets, I think they were made to throw at your intended target for maximum damage.