I ended up drawing a tag in 98. I learned real quick that the limited amount of National forest ground was extremely over crowed with people. The trailheads were packed. All of the access roads had camps everywhere. Remember that non-hunters are more than welcome to visit the wilderness, and people from all over travel to the wind river range to go hiking. I'm in pretty good shape, and I covered a lot of ground. Everywhere I went I found people. I even found an outfitters camp on the edge of the wilderness. I would study the map, try to find a place that was to remote for someone on foot to make it to, hike in the dark and push myself, just to get there and either find people or fresh sign of people. It was easy to see that just prior to the season there was a lot of elk in the area. Old sign was everywhere. But they were gone. I did see a group of elk on private ground, and I did stumble into a cow elk on public land. I don't think I would hunt this part of the state again unless I had access to the back country. It seemed like there were elk there, but you had to be able to get back to them.
