Steve, you don't mean the Big Creek below Tower Mountain by chance, do you?
We camp there for elk...
-jeff
Up the Middle Fork of the John Day River, Desolation Unit.
I have killed a few elk and guided folks to a few more. Let me state that I have always skinned elk right there. Gut, skin, quarter and hang; in just persactly that order. Takes about two hours for a man alone ... sometimes, up to three hours if he has help.
Steve