To follow up on my sarcasm...
Once in the Brooks range we walked in 12 miles just to find a fly-in camp with a guide and 3 clients, all of whom had killed rams. A different time in a different range we had a plane land on a lake downstream from us and hunters walked by our tent in the middle of the night to leapfrog us to get to sheep. That was probably 100 miles from a road. There is always the potential for unwelcome human interaction.
On the deadfall thing, maybe you are looking at it the wrong way. You have found a place that is difficult to travel in. I'd think doubly so for horses... maybe that could be used to your advantage.
