It was one of the worst hunting seasons I have seen. In my opinion it was weather related for the most part. I knew where the elk were but I didn't want to go into where they were, high and in the thick, far from the road. At 57 I didn't want a really nasty multi day pack out. The statistics are skewed because there is a relatively small percentage that kills an elk almost every year. That means that most of the people hunting don't ever kill an elk.
This was the first year I many that I didn't fill at least one elk tag. I was too busy with harvest to go in September and the weather didn't help my B list cow tag hunt.
