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I know a spot right along a popular hiking/biking trail. It's up a ways from the trailhead. As soon as there's enough snow so the hikers quit using it, the elk move in. I got a cow last year out of a herd of 80 to 100 right on the trail. Until the snow falls, though, forget it. 100 hikers a day will be traipsing though the middle of it. The season goes through the end of Nov so if I wait long enough, the snow and the elk will be there. I drew a tag this year, too, so I'll be right there again unless I run into something earlier in the season.

This was enough snow to lock out the hikers. There's a cow in those panniers.