RE: Your thoughts,
I hope your guide provided you with much more information and help than just showing you a spot and that next year you will feel that you need his expertise to go back hunting, but if you do not feel that way then you are free to do what you want and not feel bad about it.
I am myself a computer consultant and more often than not customers try to extract everything they can from me and later on do the work themselves or worse hire a recent immigrant at a much cheaper rate. This is life. Fortunately I have a set of good customers who realize that I bring good value to their business.