Just my opinion, if it’s possible and you think there are elk in the area I’d get high and glass into the area you suspect elk are at before I went into it. Once you bump elk out, they don’t usually hang around.
Thanks Beretzs. What I mean is that getting high before glassing necessarily involves making a huge amount of noise over a long period of time slogging through the crunchy frozen snow. Won't that cause there be nothing to see when glassing because of that? Also, what about camping within a mile or so of where hunting? Bad idea?