Correct,I should have clarified that too. I have seen horse camps in that meadow with big electric corrals set up. Finally the FS had to put signs up forbidding camping in certain locals.
In the early years, we packed in and camped down the canyon , but the last few years we hunted it, we camped down at the FS campgrounds and rode in every day 5-6 miles. Still killed elk.
What I meant was that back packers would bushwhack way up into that dark timber and setup camp right at the edge of the aspen. Effectively camping in the elk's kitchen or bedroom.
Further down the canyon, a horse camp always setup along a stream that was the crossing point for the elk from one mountain to the another, which shut that down .
There are idiots in each group,no doubt. The problem is most hunters don't give crap about other hunters and quite a few don't know how to hunt elk.
Last edited by saddlesore; 03/07/15.
