I feel guilty for hijacking the other thread. So, I thought I would start a new one specific to my particular circumstances.

Thanks to all for the comments in the other thread. Thanks Smokepole for the offline snow report. Thanks Elkslayer for the offline comments, which were very helpful and gave me some ideas to consider.

How about something like this (if other hunters aren’t already there when we get there). The pictured lake is at about 11,600ft; the surrounding pinned hunt locations are 150 ft to 200 ft higher. There is that small stream on the lower left too.

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The top of the map is north. The wind is supposed to be coming from the WSW. There are miles of forest to the south and east. But there doesn’t appear to be any other water for miles. For scale Hunt B1b is 200 yds from Hunt B1a.

There may or may not be any snow. If there is, if the forecast holds, it won’t be much. From a webcam not too far away, there looks to be about an inch of snow on the ground right now at 11,700 ft; the area is supposed to get a few inches more tomorrow; but then the high is going to be in the forties and sunny and lows around 30 for the next ten days. Too early to know what the winds will be like, but the forecast has the winds around 5 mph to 10 mph.

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Would the two of us sitting in two of those three pinned locations (or thereabouts) and watching the tree lines and the water be a good idea?

How far away would you camp at minimum? We would camp east of the hunt site for wind purposes. I was looking at a good place to camp about 0.6 miles to the east. Is that too close? There are other areas to hunt if we end up deciding that that place is futile.

Many thanks in advance for any answers or comments.