I've rented horses from Sombrero a couple of times to haul elk off the hill and thought it was money well spent on 2 occasions, and once it was a pain in the ass when they raised the price and gave me a crappy horse to boot.
Using a horse for hauling elk is about as much fun as it gets and makes you feel like a classic Western elk adventure, that is just leading one a few miles in loading him up and walking him out. Id love to have a couple of horses or mules and a pack string of my own but that or a $5K guided hunt aren't in the budget for the foreseeable future. A couple of hundred bucks for a rental is an efficient cheaper option without the feed and vet bills or the big check to get the whole deal.
