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<blockquote data-quote="Timber338" data-source="post: 946927" data-attributes="member: 33822"><p>My favorite elk landscape has a little of everything and overall it's darn rugged. Big open canyons that you can see for miles, dark timber that gets so thick you can't make it through all of it, rolling aspen forests, lots of gamble oaks. water everywhere sometimes too much and the trails get awful muddy. oh, and elk everywhere, that's the important part. lots of bears too. not the best deer hunting until snow pushes them down from higher up later in the fall.</p><p></p><p>Elevation wise the best hunting is between about 8,000 ft and 10,000 feet, but you can find em anywhere between 7500 and 11500. Gotta backpack in some miles to setup camp so there's always the trade off to be light but still have some creature comforts. I'm still relatively young and in good shape so I tend to bring more gear to be comfortable and then hit it hard on the pack out with gear and elk. Depending on the size of the critter it takes 4 to 6 trips to the car with quarters and gear to pack out, sometimes that adds up to nearly 50 total miles to pack out over 6 round-trips if you get lucky and shoot a big one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Timber338, post: 946927, member: 33822"] My favorite elk landscape has a little of everything and overall it's darn rugged. Big open canyons that you can see for miles, dark timber that gets so thick you can't make it through all of it, rolling aspen forests, lots of gamble oaks. water everywhere sometimes too much and the trails get awful muddy. oh, and elk everywhere, that's the important part. lots of bears too. not the best deer hunting until snow pushes them down from higher up later in the fall. Elevation wise the best hunting is between about 8,000 ft and 10,000 feet, but you can find em anywhere between 7500 and 11500. Gotta backpack in some miles to setup camp so there's always the trade off to be light but still have some creature comforts. I'm still relatively young and in good shape so I tend to bring more gear to be comfortable and then hit it hard on the pack out with gear and elk. Depending on the size of the critter it takes 4 to 6 trips to the car with quarters and gear to pack out, sometimes that adds up to nearly 50 total miles to pack out over 6 round-trips if you get lucky and shoot a big one. [/QUOTE]
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