Well we are back. first off thanks for the well wishes, but again we come home skunked.
First day out I saw 3 elk, one of which was a cow bedded quite a ways off and two others right at dark thirty, closer to our tent.......so next day looks good
2nd day we hike up the mtn to where I had seen the two elk and we get socked in...rain, clouds, snow, sleet coming and going and right at prime hunting time the clouds drop in and stay and you cannot see a thing, so we bail off ....we get back to camp soaking wet
3rd day we have to dry our clothes, so we build a fire and do so all day....at 4ish I start checking the mtn side where were yesterday and I see an elk and then another and more until it gets to dark to see with the spotting scope...there was a rag horn, a 5x and a small 6x6)300ish maybe, that I saw along wíth cows and calves and who knows what I did not see....anyway a plan is made to go up there tomorrow again and hope they come back thru
day 4 we head up and of course while going up a hunter is going across the mtn below us though a clearing we had just gone straight up thru, but he says he is going straight thru across...I think ok he should be well below where the elk and we will be in position if he does spook them, so on we trudge....one guy we leave guarding the clearing and us other 3 continue straight up to where we need to be and of course when we get there another hunter comes walking along the ridge....geesh I had not seen another hunter on this side of the mtn the first 3 days and not two in less than an hour,,,,,,I talked to him, he was from Cascade, I think and he said he had spooked 3 cows, but they had run down and not up, so I am thinking ok we still have a chance, as it is hours before I expect elk to show, so we hunker down and wait......but they do not show.....one of the guys in my group said he saw 2 other hunters later in the area and I think the elk got spooked and left for better places....
day 5 we have to pack up as one guy has to get back, which he forgot to mention, so we pack up and leave......chris
