Elk packouts

[Hilljackoutlaw]

What's the farthest you have packed out an elk on foot one way with no pack animal help?

 

[belshawelk]

7+ miles. Buddy and I shot two elk. Made 4 trips. Not a road hike. Up and down from 2500' to 4500' up and down canyons.

I was younger and dumber then.

 

[Jape]

6 miles. First half mile was gumbo but the rest was downhill. I still hurt the next day.

 

[Irrelevant]

5 miles. One load each. But it was about as easy as could be, 90% was on a long gently sloping well maintained trail. The pressure on my hips was bad enough to cause some pretty bad bruising/bleeding.

 

[LukeDuke]

60 yards. 1st archery elk last yr. I doubt I will ever get that lucky again, but hey, I will take it.

 

[onpoint]

I used to talk to all kindsa' guys that regularly packed 'em back to the road (above Gardiner, MT) a good four miles, in January. That (regularly) put the kill-sight elevation at about 10,000', in January.

 

[superdave450]

About 2 miles, two trips with an elevation loss of 1500'. Been lucky to always have a downhill route out. Avoid uphill with a load at all costs.

 

[wytex]

A little over a mile, been pretty lucky I guess.

 

[Duck-Slayer]

3.5 miles, unmaintained fire break trail.... 3 trips by myself
Matt

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

3.5 miles, unmaintained fire break trail.... 3 trips by myself
Matt

Was this pre-goat days?

 

[onpoint]

Whaddayou' guys doing packing out your elk - get your wife to do it.......

 

[Western Traveler1]

3.5 miles on mostly easy ground. Partners elk, two round trips each after hiking in to his location.

 

[Sytes]

Farther than I swore the last time I would not exceed...

 

[pre6422hornet]

7.5 miles deep into the Pecos Wilderness... Thank the lord when the packs were loaded it was all downhill.

 

[jtm307]

2.5 miles

 

[Elkoholic]

Thinking about this topic reminded me of Gerald & I making 3.5mi trip into getting Olivia's bull we left broken down from the night before, and somehow before we left with a load and against my better judgment Gerald decides to drop a decent bull. In all, pack trips stretched for 3days.

 

[Gr8bawana]

It felt like 10 miles but farthest has only been about 3 miles tops. Luckily they were cows and there were 3 of us packing.

 

[jdf]

3.5 miles bro in law and I each killed bulls same spot 3 days apart. 1 trip each bull.
Brutual

 

[ElkNut1]

Farthest elk was in the 6-7 mile range, 4 of us & no packs to speak of, it was freaking brutal, of course this one was many moons ago!

Generally speaking we pack elk out in the 1-2 mile gps range. Most packouts are aprox 4-5 hours one way, it's brutal country! At 64 I'm not sure how much longer I can do it. I train my ass of at present but there comes a day!

ElkNut/Paul

 

[golfer]

maybe a mile or so. I now make sure my friends horses are available when I head into go hunting...