The Pagosa area has some very good elk hunting. After the first day go either very high or very low for them. under 7500 and over 12,000. There will be elk in between but the bigger bulls duck out or top out once the shooting starts. There are some real monster mule deer on the very high tops too. I mean monsters. Is 225 typical considered a monster -- yup. If you hit the right mountain you should see plenty of 180 plus bucks and even a few 200 plus non-typicals. Superb ginetics for mule deer there. The elk are pretty good. A few 300s and even a couple 340s Good luck to ya.