8x when I was in Colorado and It's fine in the Carolina pine forests but a 6x would give a little wider field of view..
"Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend." Isak Dinesen
For binos I relied on a set of 10x50 SL and 15x60 B/GATs for years . Now happy with 8x30 SLC and 12x50 ELs. Don't feel like I've left anything on the table except unneeded weight.
