The rest of my story. When we made it back to spike camp. we slept for a couple hours. then decided to cut some of the backstrap off. & eat it later. We crried the elk to the truck. My bol took it into town. He was gonna pick up some onion & mushrooms & a couple potatoes. We had been eating oatmeal & dehydrated meals for 5 days now. Backstraps& potatoes were sounding pretty good. My brother & I went back out hunting. My bol went into town dropped the meat off came back to spike camp. Well we had about 3 lbs of backstrap wrpped in plastic. He tucked it under a rock to keep it out of the sun. When we got back we went to cooking. Sliced up onion ,mushrooms , Went to get the straps GONE. We figure a pine martin came into camp & took them. We ended up eating the onions & mushrooms with a dehydrated beef patty. We still laugh at that one