Originally Posted by AlaskaCub

... Now I live in Colorado and am preparing for my first elk hunt here and I’ve spent a good bit of time in the mountains recently and the forest are the thickest clutter of chit I could have ever imagined, and steep......The lay down beetle kill Lodgepole and wall to wall trees makes hiking a nightmare and most of the time you can’t see 20 yards through the woods. Definitely doesn’t look like the elk hunting I watched on tv! Don’t even feel like I need binoculars anymore.


Describes where I hunted the last few years to a T.

Don’t get me wrong, there are big parks, but you’ll never see a bull in the open during daylight.