This last Christmas, we were in Albuquerque with our daughter's family. My SIL and I took a drive to look for elk. We got as high as 10k before we had much snow on the road. We saw tracks everywhere and there were streams of tracks heading down. We dropped down and found the elk at about 8 to 8.5k. There wasn't all that much snow at 10k. In fact there was a lot of bare ground. I don't know what chased them down.
