For the handful of Trump children not living or working in the White House, having their father as president presents a problem unique among members of the 0.01 percent: how to carry on their normal, jet-setting lives, with all the comforts and amenities of the super-rich, while being suffocated by the continuous presence of Secret Service agents. Less than a year into the Trump presidency, this arrangement has become problematic for both parties: the Secret Service has already blown through its annual budget protecting Donald Trump and his large family as they take frequent work/pleasure trips to Mar-a-Lago, Bedminster, Aspen, Italy, and other destinations, like Tiffany Trump’s romantic getaway to Berlin. And for at least one large adult son, it’s also a pain in the neck. Sometimes a brooding outdoorsman under investigation by the F.B.I. just has to get away from it all.

On September 18, The New York Times reported that the Donald Trump Jr., an executive at the Trump Organization, had voluntarily given up his Secret Service detail, reportedly seeking more privacy. This didn’t surprise New York Times Magazine writer Luke Dittrich, who, days earlier, had learned from his sources in Canada’s Yukon Territory that the eldest Trump son had secretly flown up to Whitehorse for a bow-hunting trip, accompanied by two associates and a conspicuous lack of Secret Service protection.

Dittrich decided to track him down, and in his report for the magazine, revealed that even in a remote stretch of wilderness spanning hundreds of thousands of square miles, it was unnervingly easy to find a wealthy man prominently known for his love of big-game hunting. Nineteen camps in the Yukon Territory catered to the ultra-rich, which Dittrich found easily. And after a few calls, Dittrich was certain that Trump Jr. “had supposedly been spending time on a river, which meant he was probably trying to bag a moose.” Dittrich eventually confirmed his story by flying to Whitehorse and waiting for Trump Jr. at the tiny regional airport.

Were Trump Jr. not the president’s son, tracking him down to a town of roughly 26,000 people in the Canadian wilderness would be an easy exercise in paparazzo skills. (Dittrich himself lamented that he felt like one.) But the family of the president is legally required to have protection from the Secret Service, in order to prevent them from being assassinated, abducted, or otherwise used as human leverage against the president—a prospect that could endanger national security. “Whatever your politics, whatever you think of Trump, the last thing you would want is for his son to fall into the wrong hands,” Dittrich wrote. Considering the political danger Trump père has already put himself in to protect his son—including dictating a misleading statement attempting to defuse news reports about Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer peddling dirt on Hillary Clinton—it’s not hard to imagine what lengths he might go to if Donny were, for instance, taken hostage by a moose.