You are absolutely right Tanner but if you need to be in the same physical shape as a marathoner to get there then it loses some of its luster. I've lived in CO/hunted area 55 for twenty years and the first decade was decent hunting. The last 5 years have been crap. I'm about to the stage of giving up my annual donation to the DOW and advising the rest of my group to do likewise. I will go hunting because my brother and I use it as a family reunion to get away for a week but we don't expect success. Like the gent earlier in the thread opined; I'm ready to save my money and pay a guide/trespass fee if I feel the need to get another elk. Hell, I haven't seen anything but raghorns for the past decade dead or alive. I honestly have seen mulie racks as big as a lot of the elk racks I've seen carried out the last several years.
