CountingCoo that was as solid advice as I have seen on this board. One of the things that is amazing is to get to the top of a ridge and see the vast expanse of cover available to the elk. At times it seems like it would be impossible to ever find an elk. In my experience elk like little micro habitats. If hunting a new area the first thing I look for is a long ridge with several little fingers coming off of it. This affords the hunter a reasonably mild change in elevation at which to cover ground, and the same is true for the elk. The best possible advice I could give would be to say that elk are where you find them, you just got to keep looking.