Google Earth is too good. If you use it, you know that. The resolution keeps getting better every time its updated. With that, it is easy to find big outfitter camps. Even under tree cover, its hard to hide multiple canvas wall tents from the eye in the sky.
I recently found a good size camp not far from the place we hunt. 3 miles away, but in the next drainage over. The area they occupy is good elk country, and in an area I have considered hunting on foot.
What is the etiquette of hunting the same mountain where you know an outfitter camp exists?
I'm not talking about walking up to camp to share coffee and talk hunting. I mean hunting the same general mountain. Little pocket meadows,and bigger mountain meadows within a mile of the tents. What is the etiquette? This is all national forest land. Do you give them a cushion? If so, what distance?
Have you had encounters with outfitters/hunters from the outfitter and how do you handle this situation?
