well, if you want to get down to milk creek from the top of yellow jacket you're going to need someone to hold your beer for you cause it gets bumpy to say the least
IMO it's a much safer bet getting in & out of there with a truck in the early seasons & even then there is a chance of getting snowed in. We take tire chains even for the early season because even rain can make it tough getting back out of there.
when you are on top of yellowjacket the timber cover is dense, lot of dark timber up there. As you go down towards Milk things thin out to stands of aspen & way down in there it thins out to open sage & grass valleys.
I'm usually in there for elk but I've taken notice of the deer for sure. I see the most deer in those sparse aspen areas.
We can see sleepy cat from most places we hunt in there.
ATV's aren't allowed off the forest roads so IMO there value back there is pretty limited. We do see a lot of ATV's in there but people seem to just use them as a more quick & nimble way of traveling from there camp to and from a point of foot entry where they might wish to hunt.
I got no prob with the ATV's because most guys with them out there seem respectful of the horses. just keep that in mind, a lot of your horse guys really have it in for the ATV's be it right or wrong that's just the way it is so if you encounter or meet a horse or horses on those roads you can earn some respect from the horse guys by pulling over & shutting your machine off while the horses pass and by idling past horse camps keeping the engine noise & machine speed to a minimum.
I've been past the road for aldrich but never taken that road.
about a 1/4 way down from the top of yellowjacket in about any direction the ground is really heavy with rock. makes for very bumpy going. then down lower from the heavy rocky areas it gets muddy.
we've had years where we've hooked 2 trucks together with long tow straps & put the better of the 2 trucks in the lead getting up & out of the milk area. It can get bad so even if you could get a camper down in there in one piece, I don't know if you would ever get it back out. best to leave campers and other trailers up on top. the trailhead down by milk is for tent camps.
If i was going for deer in that area with a camper i'd leave the camper up top or part way up yellowjacket & I'd hunt down to the quakies for deer. If i had doe tags it would be a no brainer, damn things are everywhere. As for the bucks, I've seen very few decent legal bucks back there that I could have got a confident shot at, but I guess that's how the bucks are huh?
Good luck & if I can help or if you have any more questions about the area PM me if you like, it aint like i live there though. my experience there is limited to our elk trips but i'll try & help if i can.
Dave