GMU 25 is "flat" on top, but has deep canyons and a lot of burns and fresher beetle kill where it is a pain to get through at all. Mostly only one or max. 2 roads to get in. Lots of hunters, lots of muzzleloaders with ATVs on the "dirt roads". If the elk get pressured too much, they get down in the canyons or on the eastern slopes down onto private land. The canyons can be accessed comparably easy but the wind is hard to play and the elk have long legs and can move back up the other side of the hill fast. Not much open area to glass there either, at least not where the elk are, you hunt usually for bugles and go after them then. If the elk don't bugle, you will stand in front of great landscape and have no idea where they are. You have to have a lot of luck to locate them within 7 days and even luckier to kill one within that time frame. Just bumping into them will usually not get you shots. One year the elk did bugle very little or hardly at all during the whole season there. Still, one guy was lucky enough that a bull came trotting by and he shot him :-))
Also, hunting alone in this terrain can be risky. One very easily slips on those steep side hills and can break a leg or get a puncture wound from a fallen tree with limbs still sticking out. When no-one knows where you are and you're immobilized, you have a real problem. And most places up there have no cell phone reception either. We may see at the classic.
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