Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting Can you pack out 1/2 of an elk yourself?

This first is an old pic that I've posted before. Those panniers are full of elk meat. It was a lot harder getting up there than getting down. The day before, it took me over 2 hrs to climb up to where the elk were. We'd spotted them from camp down near the road. Going down was a slow zig zag through sagebrush and rocks and most of it was a lot steeper than this pic shows.

Backpacking down stuff like this is hard on the knees, especially knees that have been doing it for well over 50 years.

For a contrast, the 2d pic is a deer that I packed for one of my partners this year. It was 3 miles in but all on a good trail with only about 3/4 mile being steep. It was a piece of cake.