How are people doing out there?
Dan and I hunted hard for the 1st. several days of 1st season rifle. Seeing no legal bulls and few elk. Lots of people on UTV's at the trailhead parked next to the JadeRunner. We could spot them at trailhead from high points with binoculars. The hunters we talked to were all from the east coast.
Dan finally got a small bull Tue. am. up high. Then I connected on a medium size bull Tue. night. It was sad that this was the lone bull with 30 cows. Basically the bigger bulls must have been shot already. They were feeding in a remote meadow 4 miles in. I was in the area when I heard him give out a small bugle and was able to get to him just before dark.
We had a guy from New Jersey shoot a small bull from the cliff top where the road goes by at 700 yards. He said he had some kind of bench and special setup. I saw them coming out at night with the meat when I was returning to camp. Then a few days later we saw ATV tracks going past the sign and into the wilderness on the foot trail about a mile which was as far as they could go. Thanks goodness a tree and rock blocked their way at least at that point. I assume it was them at night trying to shorten their hike out with their meat. That was unfortunate.
Everyone was long gone from the whole area the last few days when we were packing out. The snows storms were coming in the next few days evidently so we got lucky to skirt the snow this year.