Too many hunters are camping to close to prime hunting habitat now days.A mile should be fine, but keep a quiet camp.No pounding ,no spitting wood, no banging pots and pans and no loud talking, etc. Staying in a motel is not the answer.

Unles the tracks are fresh, the elk are long gone, moving thru, unless it is prime feeding grounds where forage is abundant compared to other areas that migh thave deep snow.

I have never had much luck getting high and glassing.Maybe where I hunt is too much timber though.

Last edited by saddlesore; 02/08/21.

If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles