Nala,
Use the Internet to scout. If you are in pretty good shape and can handle the high altitude I would recommend looking at wilderness areas in OTC units. You might want to spend a summer vacation to scout out a couple of likely areas where you might want to go before you actually commit to hunt there, which is what I did. I am getting to be an old man, overweight and with limited lung capacity compared to my youth but I am still able to get up there. If you are faced with those limitiations that I am then you need to have plenty of grit and determination to get there. You need to have the perserverance of a snapping turtle and never quit. I prefer timberline hunting areas myself and look for units with plenty of ground above 10,000 ft. and up. I scour over topo and ariel photo maps and look for an area that is at least 4 miles in from a trailhead. That keeps most foot hunters out of the picture. If you are going much farther than that you will want to have horses, which are available for rent. It seems to me most outfitters will often place their camps 6-8 miles in, so that gives you a pretty nice buffer zone between the day hiker hunters and the mounted outfitter hunters. If I were to do last week over again I would have my buddy and son keep hunting and plan to call a horse packer to take out the second elk if they were able to connect.
Topic: Come spend a few days in my elk camp (Read 9571 times)
