Mine can only be described as easy as regards a lot of elk country. Four bulls and a cow were all taken in generally rough country, but we’re shot on mostly flat ground or mild slopes in timber, brush, and even a big meadow, where we could ride to with horses.
A bunch more also — no deep canyons or mostly vertical slopes thankfully.
Probably the toughest for me was a Colorado bull taken across a canyon on a Boulder-strewn ridge where horses couldn’t go. We cut him up there and had to carry the meat (the packs were in the truck a couple miles away) in bags and over our shoulders most of a mile to a two tract where an ATV could gain access. But it was all downhill. Still a hind quarter balanced over the shoulder was a load.
